9780300072853-0300072856-Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900

Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900

ISBN-13: 9780300072853
ISBN-10: 0300072856
Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 458 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300072853
ISBN-10: 0300072856
Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 458 pages

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Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900 (ISBN-13: 9780300072853 and ISBN-10: 0300072856), written by authors Kathryn Kish Sklar, was published by Yale University Press in 1997. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900 (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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This masterful biography by one of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book also serves as a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. Kelley's story shows how changes in women's public culture combined with changes in men's public culture to produce results that neither could have achieved alone.

In this volume, the first of two, Kathryn Kish Sklar explores the decades between 1830 and 1900, an era when women's organizations lent unprecedented power to their activism. After analyzing how earlier generations set the stage for women's centrality in the 1890s, she depicts the first forty years of Florence Kelley's life, telling of her childhood as a member of an elite Philadelphia family, her graduation from Cornell University in 1882, her immersion in European socialism, her search for a meaningful place within American political culture, and her rise to extraordinary public power in Chicago as a resident at Jane Addams's Hull House.
Kelley's long career demonstrates that women's activism embodied the most deeply rooted characteristics of the American polity, particularly American traditions of voluntarism and limited government, the weakness of class as a vehicle for political mobilization, and the strength of gender. During the crisis-ridden years of massive immigration, industrialization, and urbanization between 1870 and 1900, Florence Kelley and other women offered an effective alternative to the male-dominated status quo.

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