Organizing Women Arthur E. Farnsley II new chapters

new chapters

The ways in which men and women engaged with their communities were generally not equal: married women fell under the legal control of their husbands

male circle of the initiated that required exceptionally high skill levels

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Organizing Women Arthur E. Farnsley II new chaptersIn 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