History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 8/1, Professional and White-Collar Employments

Contents Series Preface Introduction Professional and White-Collar Employments The Female School Teacher in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts In from the Periphery: American Women in Science, 1830–1880 American Female Historians in Context, 1770–1930 “To Barter Their Souls for Gold”: Female Clerks in Federal Government Offices, 1862–1890 The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing and Womanhood in Historical Perspective Professionalism, Feminism, and Gender Roles: A Comparative Study of Nineteenth-Century Medical Therapeutics Feminism, Professionalism, and Germs: The Thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell Doctors or Ladies? Women Physicians in Psychiatric Institutions, 1872–1900 From Hospital to College: Black Nurse Leaders and the Rise of Collegiate Nursing Schools Barred from the Bar Women and Legal Education in the United States 1870-1890 ‘Little World of Our Own’: The Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1895–1907 Research Note: The Male-Female Earnings Differential. A Historical Overview of the Clerical Occupations from the 1880s to the 1970s The Labor Market and the American High School Girl 1890–1928 Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force Female Solidarity and Professional Success: The Dilemma of Women Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century America The Tender Technicians: The Feminization of Public Librarianship, 1876–1905 Women in the Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians Self-Assertion and Social Commitment: The Significance of Work to the Progressive Era’s New Woman Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.