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Respectability and reform : Irish American women's activism, 1880-1920 / Tara M. McCarthy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815654360
  • 0815654367
Other title:
  • Irish American women's activism, 1880-1920
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Respectability and reform.DDC classification:
  • 305.48/89162073 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.I6 M116 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Part 1. Life and labor -- Life in the Irish American community: an overview -- Radicals and reformers: the origins of women's labor activism and alliances -- Part 2. Irish nationalism -- Charitable Colleens or voracious viragoes? The influence of the Ladies' Land League and its legacy -- Propaganda, protest, purchasing, and picketing: Irish American women's nationalist strategies in the twentieth century -- The suffrage movement -- The politics of identity: Irish Americans and woman suffrage in the nineteenth century -- Twentieth-century connections: suffrage tactics, trade unionists, and the lessons of Tammany Hall -- Conclusion.
Summary: "This project offers a national study of the different agendas and strategies pursued by Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, focusing on their roles in diaspora nationalism, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Life and labor -- Life in the Irish American community: an overview -- Radicals and reformers: the origins of women's labor activism and alliances -- Part 2. Irish nationalism -- Charitable Colleens or voracious viragoes? The influence of the Ladies' Land League and its legacy -- Propaganda, protest, purchasing, and picketing: Irish American women's nationalist strategies in the twentieth century -- The suffrage movement -- The politics of identity: Irish Americans and woman suffrage in the nineteenth century -- Twentieth-century connections: suffrage tactics, trade unionists, and the lessons of Tammany Hall -- Conclusion.

"This project offers a national study of the different agendas and strategies pursued by Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, focusing on their roles in diaspora nationalism, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement."--Provided by publisher.

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