Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 by Catharine R. Stimpson, Martha Vicinus

Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920

Women in Culture and Society

Catharine R. Stimpson, Martha Vicinus

412 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative medium-paced

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Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual domesticity or church governance.' She wanted and needed to work. Meticulous, resonant, original, t...

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