Enterprising women / Caroline Bird.
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Bird, Caroline, 1915-2011. (författare)
- Publicerad: New York ; New American Library, [1976]
- Copyright: ©1976
- Engelska 216 pages
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Serie: Mentor book
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- The Declaration of Independence : Mary Goddard and the early printers -- Family business : Nantucket women, Eliza Pinckney, Abigail Adams, Sarah Astor -- Community builders : women of the frontier -- The industrial revolution : Rebecca Lukens -- The vocation of womanhood : Sarah Hale -- Teachers : Catherine Beecher -- Fashions for everyone : Ellen Demorest, Margaret LaForge -- Money makers : Margaret Haughery, Susan King -- The Civil War : Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Annie Wittenmyer, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton -- Reconstruction : Frances Leigh -- The professionals : Myra Bradwell, Lucy Taylor, Elizabeth Blackwell -- Confidence builders : Mary Baker Eddy, Lydia Pinkham, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, C.J. Walker -- Institution builders : Henrietta King, Eliza Nicholson -- Women in the office : Mary Seymour, Katharine Gibbs -- Sex women : Miriam Leslie, the Everleighs -- Professionalizing housework : Ellen Richards, Fannie Farmer, Alice Lakey -- The innovators : Maggie Walker, Kate Gleason -- Helpers : Mary Follett, Josephine Roche, Mary Richmond -- Fashions for everyone II : Ida Rosenthal, Nell Donnelly -- World War II : Olive Ann Beech, Tillie Lewis -- The vocation of womanhood II : Beatrice Gould -- Word women : Sylvia Porter, Mary Wells Lawrence, Katharine Graham -- Rising expectations : Jayne Baker Spain, Eleanor Holmes Norton.
- An illuminating series of crisp, lively portraits of "enterprising" American women--from Colonial days when Mary Goddard printed the Declaration of Independence to Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post (in a sense Goddard's 1976 counterpart). Even when the biographical material is skimpy Ms. Bird manages to convey the personal impact of both the famous and the unknown women within the context of prevailing sex roles and cultural attitudes. Among the portraits: innovators in education and business, nurses and social workers, "confidence builders" like Mary Baker Eddy and Lydia Pinkham (her original compound contained exotic Caribbean ingredients and 18 percent alcohol), writers, medical pioneers, and even brothel owners. The author concludes that the careers she discusses have certain prerequisites: access to books and ideas; family or, these days, cultural support; freedom from pregnancy (many were widows or unmarried); and often, in the past, the spur of domestic crisis. Ms. Bird takes historical currents where they lead her (a fine side trip into Colonial printing) and there's an unhurried, non-didactic tone which makes this a decided pleasure to read.
Ämnesord
- Kvinnor (sao)
- Affärskvinnor (sao)
- Kvinnliga företagare (sao)
- Kvinnor -- historia (sao)
- Affärskvinnor (kao)
- Business women (kao//eng)
- Företagare (kao)
- Entrepreneurs (kao//eng)
- Ekonomisk historia (kao)
- Economic history (kao//eng)
- Businesswomen (lcsh)
- Women (lcsh)
- Businesswomen (lcsh)
- Förenta staterna (sao)
- Förenta staterna (kao)
- United States (kao//eng)
Genre
- Biografier (saogf)
Klassifikation
- 331.40973 (DDC)
- Ohafb (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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