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Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America
In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.

Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.

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Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America
In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.

Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.

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Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America

Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America

by Christine Pawley
Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America

Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America

by Christine Pawley

Overview

In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.

Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625346902
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 10/28/2022
Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

CHRISTINE PAWLEY is professor emerita at the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter One
“Hilda’s Helps in Home-Making"
Print, Domesticity, and Collaboration in the Golden Age of Agriculture

Chapter Two
Letters from Leanna
Kitchen-Klatter and the Radio Homemakers

Chapter Three
“What message does it have?”
Race, Reading, and the Book Lovers Club

Chapter Four
A “Terror” and a “Legend”
Lutie Eugenia Stearns and the State Library Organizations of Wisconsin

Chapter Five
Maintaining a Mesh of Mutual Assistance
Mary Emogene Hazeltine and the Wisconsin Library School

Chapter Six
Books for Bronzeville
Vivian Gordon Harsh, the “Special Negro Collection,” and the Chicago Public Library

Conclusion
Notes
Index
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