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For Better or Worse

By: Jane Cunningham Croly

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For Better or Worse

By: Jane Cunningham Croly

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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241

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338537054X

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9783385370548

The 'Girl Question' in Education

By: Jane Bernard-Powers

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The 'Girl Question' in Education

By: Jane Bernard-Powers

This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education - the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era - are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces the three curriculum areas from prescription, through lively discussions of policy to the actual programs and student responses to the programs. The author tells the story of education for work from several different perspectives and draws on a vast array of sources to paint this broad canvas of vocational education for young women at the turn of the twentieth century.

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162

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Routledge

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0415683610

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9780415683616

Mothers of All Children

Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America

By: Elizabeth Jane Clapp

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Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America

By: Elizabeth Jane Clapp

A history of the juvenile court movement in America, which focuses upon the central but neglected contribution of women reformers.The establishment of juvenile courts in cities across the United States was one of the earliest social welfare reforms of the Progressive Era. The first juvenile court law was passed in Illinois in 1899. Within a decade twenty-two other states had passed similar laws, based on the Illinois example. Mothers of All Children examines this movement, focusing especially on the role of women reformers and the importance of gender consciousness in influencing the shape of reform. Until recently historians have assumed that male reformers dominated many of the Progressive Era social reforms. Mothers of All Children goes beyond simply writing women back into the history of the juvenile court movement to reveal the complexity of their involvement. Some women operated within nineteenth-century ideals of motherhood and domesticity while others, trained in the social sciences and living in,the poor neighborhoods of America's cities, took a more pragmatic approach.Despite these differences, Clapp finds a common maternalist approach that distinguished women reformers from their male counterparts. Women were more willing to use the state to deal with wayward children, whereas men were more commonly involved as supporters of women reformers' initiatives rather than being themselves the initiators of reform.Firmly located in the context of recent scholarship on American women's history, Mothers of All Children has broad implications for American women's political history and the history of the welfare state.

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226

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Penn State Press

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0271043857

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9780271043852

Angel Dorothy

How an American Progressive Came to Devon

By: Jane Brown

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How an American Progressive Came to Devon

By: Jane Brown

Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925. What started as a progressive school rapidly transformed into a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians, creating an exceptional centre for British cultural life. It was at Dartington in Devon that the Labour Party’s post-war manifesto was written and the Arts Council was conceived. Born in Washington, DC, into the influential Whitney family, Dorothy was a national darling: bells rang, flags flew and the American Navy’s new fast tugboat was named Dorothy. Orphaned at seventeen, she started giving away her inheritance at eighteen and buried herself in social and political work. She maintained her status as an unmarried woman until she fell in love with and married her first husband, Willard Straight, in 1911. Following Willard’s untimely death, Dorothy worked herself into a breakdown trying to fulfil his wishes. She recovered with the help of Leonard Elmhirst, an Englishman who shared her liberal beliefs; they married and moved to England in 1925 to start what would become Dartington Hall. In this vividly told biography, Jane Brown follows Dorothy from one side of the Atlantic to the other, a journey Dorothy made one hundred times to spread her political beliefs, her passion for education and her support of the arts for all. She traces the evolution of Dartington, from its restoration to its farming and forestry projects, and to its time as a home for the period’s greatest artists and intellectuals.

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308

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Unbound Publishing

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1783523158

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9781783523153

Journalists of the United States

Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the Present

By: Robert Bingham Downs,Jane B. Downs

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Journalists of the United States

Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the Present

By: Robert Bingham Downs,Jane B. Downs

Hundreds of men and women who have shaped the news world throughout the course of U.S. history are in this book. Newspapers, magazines, books, radio and television are all covered. Also covered are illustrators, muckrakers, etiquette columnists, sports reporters, war correspondents, and others. Certain names stand out--Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly), Katharine Meyer Graham, William Randolph Hearst, Henry Luce, Samuel McClure, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Pulitzer, Edward Morrow--but many lesser known figures are included.

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089950549X

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9780899505497

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For Better or Worse

For Better or Worse

The 'Girl Question' in Education

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Mothers of All Children

Mothers of All Children

Angel Dorothy

Angel Dorothy

Journalists of the United States

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