Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women’s Right to Work, 1914–1920

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Part I. New Directions for Research
6. Introduction 1
7. Tied To Other Lives: Women in Pacific Northwest History 5
8. Part 2. Politics and Law
9. Introduction 25
10. Of Women’s Rights and Freedom: Abigail Scott Duniway 28
11. The Fight for Woman Suffrage and the Oregon Press 43
12. “His Face is Weak and Sensual”: Portland and the Whipping Post Law 59
13. Part 3. Work
14. Introduction 91
15. Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women’s Right to Work, 1914–1920 94
16. Bertha Knight Landes: The Woman Who Was Mayor 135
17. The Job He Left Behind: Women in the Shipyards During World War II 158
18. Part 4. Race and Ethnicity
19. Introduction 181
20. The Role of Native Women in the Creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670–1830 184
21. A Chicana in Northern Aztlán: Dora Sánchez Treviño 195
22. Gender Equality on the Colville Indian Reservation in Traditional and Contemporary Contexts 237
23. Part 5. The Arts
24. Introduction 255
25. Quilts in the Lives of Women Who Migrated to the Northwest, 1850–1990: A Visual Record Bywater 258
26. The Seattle Ladies Musical Club, 1890–1930 271
27. Tsugiki, a Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington State 288
28. Suggestions for Further Reading 313
29. Contributors 319
30. Index 323