Foreword by Glenda Riley
Introduction: The Strange Career of Madame Dubuque and Midwestern
Women's History
Wendy Hamand Venet and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
I. Four Lives
1. Leadership within the Women's Community: Susie Bonga Wright of
the Leech Lake Ojibwe
Rebecca Kugel
2. Journeywoman Milliner: Emily Austin, Migration, and Women's Work
in the Nineteenth Century Midwest
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
3. Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping: Women's Political
Activism in Chicago, 1890
Karen M. Mason
4. The Limits of Community: Martha Friesen of Hamilton County,
Kansas
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
II. Community and Leadership
5. "For the good of her people": Continuity and Change for Native
Women of the Midwest, 1650-1850
6. "Those with whom I feel most nearly connected": Kinship and
Gender in Early Ohio
Tamara G. Miller
7. The Ethnic Female Public Sphere: German-American Women in
Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
Christiane Harzig
8. Sisterhood and Community: The Sisters of Charity and
African-American Women's Health Care in
Indianapolis, 1876-1920
Earline Rae Ferguson
III. Work
9. "The indescribable care devolving upon a housewife": Women's and
Men's Perceptions of Pioneer
Foodways on the Midwestern Frontier
Sarah F. McMahon
10. Changing Times: Iowa Farm Women and Cooperative Home Economics
Extension in the1920s and
1950s
Dorothy Schwieder
11. Women, Unions, and Debates over Work during World War II in
Indiana
Nancy F. Gabin
12. "Making Rate": Mexicana Immigrant Workers in an Illinois
Electronics Plant
Irene Campos Carr
Bibliography
Addresses the long-neglected question of women and midwestern regional identity.
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Assistant Professor of History at DePaul
University in Chicago, has published articles on Native American
women and women artisans in midwestern history.
Wendy Hamand Venet, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State
University, is author of Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women
Abolitionists and the Civil War.
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