Professional and White-Collar Employments

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Professional and White-Collar Employments -- The Female School Teacher in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts / Bernard, Richard M. / Vinovskis, Maris A. -- In from the Periphery: American Women in Science, 1830-1880 / Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory -- American Female Historians in Context, 1770-1930 / Sklar, Kathryn Kish -- "To Barter Their Souls for Gold": Female Clerks in Federal Government Offices, 1862-1890 / Aron, Cindy S. -- The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing and Womanhood in Historical Perspective / Reverby, Susan M. -- Professionalism, Feminism, and Gender Roles: A Comparative Study of Nineteenth-Century Medical Therapeutics / Morantz, Regina Markell / Zschoche, Sue -- Feminism, Professionalism, and Germs: The Thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell / Morantz, Regina Markell

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