Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction: Converging on History 1
7. PART I. RETHINKING SEPARATE SPHERES
8. 1. The Cloistering of Medieval Nuns: Release or Repression, Reality or Fantasy? 27
9. 2. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power 40
10. 3. Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: The Clash between Craft Traditions and Professional Science 56
11. 4. Sense and Sensibility: A Case Study of Women's Reading in Late Victorian America 71
12. 5. In and around the Lighthouse: Working-Class Lesbian Bar Culture in the I950S and I96os 90
13. PART II. CIRCLES OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND RESISTANCE
14. 6. Safety and Danger: Women on American Public Transport, 1750-1850 109
15. 7. Disordered Bodies/Disorderly Acts: Medical Discourse and the Female Criminal in Nineteenth-Century Paris 123
16. 8. The Unruly Woman of the Paris Commune 135
17. 9. True Women, Real Men: Gender, Ideology, and Social Roles in the Garvey Movement 154
18. 10. Learning to Live "Just Like White Folks": Gender, Ethnicity, and the State in the Inland Northwest 167
19. PART III. CONTRADICTIONS OF SOCIAL WELFARE
20. 11. Women in the Public Sphere in Early Modern England: The Case of the Urban Working Poor 183
21. 12. Good and Bad Mothers: Lady Philanthropists and London Housewives before World War I 199
22. 13. Federal Help for Mothers: The Rise and Fall of the Sheppard-Towner Act in the I920s 217
23. 14. A Right Not to Be Beaten: The Agency of Battered Women, 1880-I96o 228
24. 15. The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement 244
25. PART IV. LINKED LIVES: THE WORLDS OF GENDER, WORK, AND FAMILY
26. 16. The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women 263
27. 17. The Masculinization of Production: The Gendering of Work and Skill in U.S. Newspaper Printing, 1850-1920 277
28. 18. Between Taylorism and Denatalite: Women Welfare Supervisors and the Boundaries of Difference in French Metalworking Factories, 1917-I930 289
29. 19. Family, Work, and Community: Southern and Eastern European Immigrant Women Speak from the Connecticut Federal Writers' Project 303
30. 20. Sexism by a Subtler Name?: Postindustrial Conditions and Postfeminist Consciousness in the Silicon Valley 322
31. Contributors 339
32. Index 345