This grand experiment : when women entered the federal workforce in Civil War-era Washington, D.C. / Jessica Ziparo.
Author/creator |
Ziparo, Jessica author. |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] |
Description | xii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Subject(s) |
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Series | Civil War America Civil War America (Series) ^A325557 |
Contents | We are not playthings -- I wonder if I cannot make application for an appointment too: women join the federal workforce -- Telling her story to a man: applying for government work -- Teapots in the treasury of the nation: gendering work and space -- A strange time to seek a residence in Washington: perils and possibilities of life for female federal clerks -- The picked prostitutes of the land: reputations of female federal employees -- I am now exerting all my thinking powers: women's struggle to retain and to regain federal positions -- What makes us to differ from them?: the argument for equal pay in the nation's capital -- We do not intend to give up. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2017013226 |
ISBN | 9781469635972 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1469635976 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | (ebook) |
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