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Common sense & a little fire : women and working-class politics in the United States, 1900-1965 /
Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Edición: | Second edition / |
| Colección: | Gender & American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction
- part 1. The rise of a working-class women's movement, 1882-1909
- Prologue. From the Russian Pale to the Lower East Side : the cultural roots of four Jewish women's radicalism
- 1. Coming of age : the shock of the shops and the dawning of political consciousness, 1900-1909
- part 2. Working women in rebellion : the emergence of industrial feminism, 1909-1920
- 2. Audacity : the uprising of women garment workers, 1909-1915
- 3. Common sense : New York City working women and the struggle for woman suffrage
- part 3. The activists in their prime : the mainstreaming of industrial feminism, 1920-1945
- 4. Knocking at the White House door : Rose Schneiderman, Pauline Newman, and the campaign for labor legislation, 1910-1945
- 5. Emotion strained through a thinking mind : Fannia Cohn, the Ilgwu, and the struggle for workers' education, 1915-1945.
- 6. Spark plugs in every neighborhood : Clara Lemlich Shavelson and the emergence of a militant working-class housewives' movement, 1913-1945
- part4 The activists in old age : the twilight of a movement, 1945-1986
- 7. Witnessing the end of an era : the postwar years and the decline of industrial feminism
- Epilogue. Reflections on women and activism.