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Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933
Maureen A. Flanagan
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Description for Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933
Hardback. Presses an understanding of the roles of women in public life and offers a history of urban America. This book also offers evidence that women established a broad and durable solidarity that spanned differences of race, class, and political experience. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 628.
At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes in which the welfare of residents would be the municipal government's principal purpose. Seeing With Their Hearts traces the formation of this vision from the relief efforts following the Chicago fire of 1871 through the many political battles of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In the process, it presses a new understanding of the roles of women in public life and writes a new history of urban America. ... Read more
At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes in which the welfare of residents would be the municipal government's principal purpose. Seeing With Their Hearts traces the formation of this vision from the relief efforts following the Chicago fire of 1871 through the many political battles of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In the process, it presses a new understanding of the roles of women in public life and writes a new history of urban America. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691095394
SKU
V9780691095394
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About Maureen A. Flanagan
Maureen A. Flanagan is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is the author of "Charter Reform in Chicago" and the editor of the "Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era".
Reviews for Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933
Winner of the 2003 Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "An important book on activist women's perspectives on the modern city... Flanagan's study will become a new model for studying urban and women's history."
Choice "This is a well-written and illuminating study of women reformers in Chicago... Flanagan clearly has done extensive ... Read more
Choice "This is a well-written and illuminating study of women reformers in Chicago... Flanagan clearly has done extensive ... Read more