Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Women Together: Organizational
Life -- The Benevolent Fair: A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the
First Third of the Nineteenth Century TREUDLEY MARY BOSWORTH -- Ladies Bountiful: Organized
Women's Benevolence in Early 19th-century America MELDER KEITH -- Women in Groups: An
Analysis of Women's Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston 1797-1840 BOYLAN ANNE
M. -- Timid Girls Venerable Widows and Dignified Matrons: Life Cycle Patterns among Organized
Women in New York and Boston 1797-1840 BOYLAN ANNE M. -- Two Kindred Spirits: Sorority and
Family in New England 1839-1846 TAYLOR WILLIAM R. LASCH CHRISTOPHER -- A Pleasingly
Oppressive Burden: The Transformation of Domestic Service and Female Charity in Salem
1800-1840 LASSER CAROL S. -- Business Heads and Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the
Providence Employment Society 1837-1858 BENSON SUSAN PORTER -- True Philanthropy and the
Limits of the Female Sphere: Poor Relief and Labor Organizations in Ante-Bellum Cleveland
McTIGHE MICHAEL J. -- The Silent Charity: A History of the Cincinnati Maternity Society DICK
KRISTE LINDENMEYER -- The 1893 Congress of Jewish Women: Evolution or Revolution in American
Jewish Women's History? GOLOMB DEBORAH GRAND -- Organized Mother Love: The Buffalo Women's
Educational and Industrial Union 1885-1915 SHELTON BRENDA K. -- Our Sister's Keepers: The
Minneapolis Woman's Christian Association and Housing for Working Women WEINER LYNN --
Civilizing Kansas: Women's Organizations 1880-1920 UNDERWOOD JUNE O. -- Jewish Women of the
Club: The Changing Public Role of Atlanta's Jewish Women (1870-1930) WENGER BETH S. -- Mary
Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women 1896 to 1901 JONES BEVERLY W.
-- Toward a Broader Angle of Vision in Uncovering Women's History: Black Women's Clubs
Revisited DICKSON LYNDA F. -- Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female
Educators in the District of Columbia 1890-1930 HARLEY SHARON -- Women Consumerism and
the National Consumers' League in the Progressive Era 1900-1923 WOLFE ALLIS ROSENBERG --
Limited Only by Earth and Sky: The Louisville Woman's Club and Progressive Reform 1900-1910
FORDERHASE NANCY -- Kansas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1900-1930 BRADY MARILYN
DELL -- Working Girls Unite REITANO JOANNE -- Sisterhood and Sociability: The Utah Women's
Press Club 1891-1928 THATCHER LINDA SILLITO JOHN R. -- Separatism as Strategy: Female
Institution Building and American Feminism 1870-1930 FREEDMAN ESTELLE -- Copyright
Information -- Index
