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Strike!

By: Mary Heaton Vorse

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The most famous of the bloody southern textile strikes that took place in the late 1920s occurred at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, where workers endured fifty-five-hour work weeks, the stretchout, and pay so low that everyone in their families over sixteen normally was expected to enter the mill. Strike! is a vivid portrait of the mill workers' living and working conditions, the discomfort of the few southern liberals, the labor spies, the wavering morale of the strikers, the shootings, deaths, and trials, and the vigilante mobs. The story is told by Mary Heaton Vorse, the leading labor reporter of the period, who had covered major strikes since 1912. This novel was the first of six inspired by the Gastonia strike. Critics hailed it as the best.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252062175

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9780252062179

Time and the Town

A Provincetown Chronicle

By: Mary Heaton Vorse,Adele Heller

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Time and the Town

A Provincetown Chronicle

By: Mary Heaton Vorse,Adele Heller

Mary Heaton Vorse was, to many, the spirit of American radicalism incarnate. This pioneer of labor journalism in the United States covered the Lawrence textile strike, the great steel strike of 1919, and the 1937 auto workers' strike and factory takeover in Flint, Michigan. Vorse was prominent in the women's suffrage movement, libertarian socialism, feminism and world peace. As a war correspondent, she traveled to Lenin's Moscow and Hitler's Germany. On the day she died, Vorse was planning her involvement in the movement against the Vietnam War.

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0813517516

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Time and the Town

A Provincetown Chronicle

By: Mary Heaton Vorse

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Time and the Town

A Provincetown Chronicle

By: Mary Heaton Vorse

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Rutgers University Press

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0813517524

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Strike!

By: Mary Heaton Vorse

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Making Noise, Making News

Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism

By: Mary Chapman

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Making Noise, Making News

Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism

By: Mary Chapman

For most people, the U.S. suffrage campaign is encapsulated by images of iconic nineteenth-century orators like the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony or the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, as Mary Chapman shows, the campaign to secure the vote for U.S. women was also a modern and print-cultural phenomenon, waged with humor, creativity, and style. Making Noise, Making News also understands modern suffragist print culture as a demonstrable link between the Progressive Era's political campaign for a voice in the public sphere and Modernism's aesthetic efforts to re-imagine literary voice. Chapman charts a relationship between modern suffragist print cultural "noise" and what literary modernists understood by "making it new," asserting that the experimental tactics of U.S. suffrage print culture contributed to, and even anticipated, the formal innovations of U.S. literary modernism. Drawing on little-known archives and featuring over twenty illustrations, Making Noise, Making News provides startling documentation of Marianne Moore's closeted career as a suffrage propagandist, the persuasive effects of Alice Duer Miller's popular poetry column, Asian-American author Sui Sin Far's challenge to the racism and classism of modern suffragism, and Gertrude Stein's midcentury acknowledgement of intersections between suffrage discourse and literary modernism.

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0199988293

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9780199988297

Women's Words

The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

By: Mary Biggs

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Women's Words

The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

By: Mary Biggs

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0231079869

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9780231079860

Mysteries of Sex

Tracing Women and Men through American History

By: Mary P. Ryan

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Mysteries of Sex

Tracing Women and Men through American History

By: Mary P. Ryan

In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of 500 years and across major social and ethnic boundaries. She traces how, at select moments in history, perceptions of sex difference were translated into complex and mutable patterns for differentiating women and men. How those distinctions were drawn and redrawn affected the course of American history more generally. Ryan recounts the construction of a modern gender regime that sharply divided male from female and created modes of exclusion and inequity. The divide between male and female blurred in the twentieth century, as women entered the public domain, massed in the labor force, and revolutionized private life. This transformation in gender history serves as a backdrop for seven chronological chapters, each of which presents a different problem in American history as a quandary of sex. Ryan's bold analysis raises the possibility that perhaps, if understood in their variety and mutability, the differences of sex might lose the sting of inequality.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876682

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9780807876688

The Chinatown Trunk Mystery

Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City

By: Mary Ting Yi Lui

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The Chinatown Trunk Mystery

Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City

By: Mary Ting Yi Lui

In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, Mary Ting Yi Lui offers a fascinating snapshot of social and sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sigel's murder was more than a notorious crime, Lui contends. It was a clear signal that attempts to maintain geographical and social boundaries between the city's Chinese male and white female populations had failed. When police discovered Sigel and Leon Ling's love letters, giving rise to the theory that Leon Ling killed his lover in a fit of jealous rage, this idea became even more embedded in the public consciousness. New Yorkers condemned the work of Chinese missions and eagerly participated in the massive national and international manhunt to locate the vanished Leon Ling. Lui explores how the narratives of racial and sexual danger that arose from the Sigel murder revealed widespread concerns about interracial social and sexual mixing during the era. She also examines how they provoked far-reaching skepticism about regulatory efforts to limit the social and physical mobility of Chinese immigrants and white working-class and middle-class women. Through her thorough re-examination of this notorious murder, Lui reveals in unprecedented detail how contemporary politics of race, gender, and sexuality shaped public responses to the presence of Chinese immigrants during the Chinese exclusion era.

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Princeton University Press

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0691216282

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9780691216287

Greenwich Village, 1913

Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman

By: Mary Jane Treacy

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Greenwich Village, 1913

Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman

By: Mary Jane Treacy

Greenwich Village, 1913 immerses students in the radical possibilities unlocked by the modern age. Exposed to ideas like women's suffrage, socialism, birth control, and anarchism, students experiment with forms of political participation and bohemian self-discovery.

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UNC Press Books

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1469672413

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Greenwich Village, 1913, Second Edition

Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman

By: Mary Jane Treacy

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Greenwich Village, 1913, Second Edition

Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman

By: Mary Jane Treacy

The second edition of Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman transports students into the bohemian section of New York City known as an epicenter of rebels, artists, and seekers of personal transformation. Assuming roles as residents of "the Village," students gather at Polly's restaurant to re-create discussions about feminism, marriage, family, work, and community. A faction of students in suffragist roles seek the community's support for extending the franchise to women, while others in roles as labor organizers appeal to the community for help raising funds to support an ongoing strike. Students in this game must clarify their beliefs and make their choices through a vote. Will they prioritize gender or social class, political or economic change, or reform or revolution? Will they use their talents to support a suffrage parade or to create a pageant for the silk workers of Paterson, New Jersey? Or will they reject both factions and continue to work toward a new America through the transformation of the self?

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1469674114

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Catholic Women Writers

A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

By: Mary Reichardt

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Catholic Women Writers

A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

By: Mary Reichardt

Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each of the entries is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography of the author; a critical discussion of her works, especially her Catholic and women's themes; an overview of her critical reception; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Authors writing in all genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, children's literature, and essays, are represented. The entries give special attention to the authors' use of Catholic themes, structures, traditions, culture, and spirituality. The writers surveyed range from Doctors of the Church to mystics and visionaries, to those who employ Catholic themes primarily in historical and cultural contexts, to those who critique the tradition. An introductory essay places the writers within the historical and literary contexts of women's writing in the Catholic tradition, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313016623

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9780313016622

On the Picket Line

Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression

By: Mary Triece

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On the Picket Line

Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression

By: Mary Triece

Bonnie Ritter Book Award, National Communication Association's Feminist and Women Studies Division, 2008. On the Picket Line uncovers the voices of working-class women, particularly those active in the Communist Party, U.S.A., in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers. Combining critical analysis, Marxist and feminist theory, and labor history, Mary E. Triece analyzes the protest tactics employed by working class women to challenge dominant ideologies surrounding domesticity. She details the rhetorical strategies used by women to argue for their rights as workers in the paid labor force and as caregivers in the home. Their overtly coercive tactics included numerous sit-ins, strikes, and boycotts that won tangible gains for working poor and unemployed women. The book also gives voice to influential figures in the 1930s labor movement (many of whom were members of the Communist Party, U.S.A.), such as Ella Reeve Bloor, Margaret Cowl, Anna Damon, Ann Burlak, and Grace Hutchins. Triece ultimately argues that these confrontational protest tactics of the 1930s remain relevant in today’s fights for more humane workplaces and better living conditions.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056876

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9780252056871

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

By: Mary Angela Bennett

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

By: Mary Angela Bennett

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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1512814326

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Book's by Mary Heaton Vorse

Strike!

Strike!

Time and the Town

Time and the Town

Time and the Town

Time and the Town

Strike!

Strike!

Making Noise, Making News

Making Noise, Making News

Women's Words

Women's Words

Mysteries of Sex

Mysteries of Sex

The Chinatown Trunk Mystery

The Chinatown Trunk Mystery

Greenwich Village, 1913

Greenwich Village, 1913

Greenwich Village, 1913, Second Edition

Greenwich Village, 1913, Second Edition

Catholic Women Writers

Catholic Women Writers

On the Picket Line

On the Picket Line

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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