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Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
Title
Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
Author
Moore, Kate
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, History
Description
An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...
THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
Title
THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
Author
Battista, Nancy
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, Sex, History
Description
Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...
The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Title
The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Author
Del Giudice, Erin
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
History--Religious aspects, History, Women's studies
Description
Catholic nuns have worked within the United States in a myriad of ways for decades. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are an order of Catholic sisters whose ministry focused on "wayward" women in the late eighteenth century. As an order predominant...
“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Title
“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Author
Whittington, Joseph
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
Description
In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...