The Common Ground of Womanhood – Class, Gender, and Working Girls` Clubs, 1884–…

The Common Ground of Womanhood\nby Priscilla Murolo\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Priscilla Murolo\nTitle: The Common Ground of Womanhood\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 1997\nISBN-13: 9780252066290\nISBN-10: 0252066294\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWorking girls'' clubs were a flash-point for class antagonisms yet also provided fertile ground for surprising cross-class alliances. Priscilla Murolo''s nuanced study charts the shifting points of conflict and consensus between working women and their genteel club sponsors; working women and their male counterparts; and among working women of differing ethnic backgrounds.\nThe working girls'' club movement lasted from the 1880s, whe.