The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928

by Priscilla Murolo

Book Overview

Working girls' clubs were a flash-point for class antagonisms yet also provided fertile ground for surprising cross-class alliances. Priscilla Murolo's nuanced study charts the shifting points of conflict and consensus between working women and their genteel club sponsors; working women and their male counterparts; and among working women of differing ethnic backgrounds.

The working girls' club movement lasted from the 1880s, when women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066294
• ISBN13: 9780252066290
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"