Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920 (Women in Culture and Society) by Martha Vicinus - 1992-06-08

Univ. Chicago. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0226855686 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. ; 396 pages .

UsedGood. Book is bent. Annotations.

Chicago IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. Paperback. Near Fine. part of the Women in Culture and Society series edited by Catharine R. Stimpson. 396 pages; 5 7/8 x 9

University of Chicago Press, 1988. Book. Illus. by photo illustrated, black/white. Very Good. Soft cover. 9" x 6". Scant wear, no creases, writing or stamps. 395 pages includes the index..

University Of Chicago Press. Very Good+. 1992. Softcover. 0226855686 . Tight clean book in lightly rubbed card covers; a handful of pages have marginalia. ; Women in Culture and Society Series; 0.89 x 9.02 x 5.93 Inches; 396 pages .

University Of Chicago Press, 1992-11-11. Paperback. Used:Good.

The University of Chicago, 1985. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Independent Women ( Work & Community for Single Women 1850-1920)

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Paperback / softback. New. 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, triumphant, Independent Women tells of the efforts and endurance of this Victorian woman; of her courage and the constraints that she rejected, accepted, and created. . . . The independent women are the 'foremothers' of any women today who seeks significant work, emotionally satisfying friendships, and a morally charged freedom."-from the Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson "Feminist insight combines with vast research to produce a dramatic narrative. Independent Women chronicles the energetic lives and imaginative communal structures invented by women who 'pioneered new occupations, new living conditions, and new public roles.'"-Lee R. Edwards, Ms. "Vicinus is to be… Read More