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archival recovery of women's work
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Black and white women organizers
Book Lovers Club
Books on women's activism in the 20th century
Bronzeville
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Chicago Public Library
civic participation by women
confronting racial barriers
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cross-racial coalitions
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documenting everyday activism
early 1900s womens history
early 20th-century media outreach
Early 20th-century women's education books
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Extension school
female leadership in civic life
female radio pioneers
female social networks
gender and community leadership
gender and mass communication
Gender discrimination
gendered spaces of learning
Golden Age of Agriculture
grassroots publishing efforts
Infrastructure of Print
institutional history and gender
institutional racism and resistance
interracial activism in early 20th century
Kitchen-Klatter
knowledge dissemination by women
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library history
library school founders
library school pioneers
library-based activism
lifelong learning advocates
media access and gender
middle-class women's activism
Midwest
midwestern media empires
narrative agency in public life
Narratives of women in the U.S.
newsletter history
newsletters
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print and female empowerment
print as a civic tool
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public communication by women
public life and gender roles
Race and gender discrimination in early 1900s
Radio Homemakers
reclaiming lost histories
Resources on women in libraries and communication
rural women in broadcasting
rural women in public institutions
segregation in public institutions
Social services and women's public roles
softlaunch
Special Negro Collection
Teaching about women's history in the U.S.
The fight for equality in women's organizations
The role of organizations in women's activism
urban women's organizations
USDA extension program
Wisconsin Library School
women and early radio
women and institutional power
women and literacy expansion
women and technological advancement
women educators in early 1900s
Women in education
women in library development
women in media innovation
women in print-based institutions
Women in rural and urban America
Women in rural and urban social organizations
Women in the workplace in the 20th century
women librarians in America
women shaping public discourse
women telling their own stories
Women's activism and social change
Women's history resources for educators
Women's involvement in the YWCA
Women's participation in civic life
Women's social activism in the U.S.
Women's Studies
women's voices in history
women-led publications
YWCA
YWCA history and outreach
Product details
- ISBN 9781625346902
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.
Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.
