Professional and White-Collar Employments

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i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Professional and White-Collar Employments -- The Female School Teacher in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts -- In from the Periphery: American Women in Science, 18301880 -- American Female Historians in Context, 17701930 -- To Barter Their Souls for Gold: Female Clerks in Federal Government Offices, 18621890 -- The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing and Womanhood in Historical Perspective -- Professionalism, Feminism, and Gender Roles: A Comparative Study of Nineteenth-Century Medical Therapeutics -- Feminism, Professionalism, and Germs: The Thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell -- Doctors or Ladies? Women Physicians in Psychiatric Institutions, 18721900 -- From Hospital to College: Black Nurse Leaders and the Rise of Collegiate Nursing Schools -- Barred from the Bar: Women and Legal Education in the United States 1870-1890 -- 'Little World of Our Own': The Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Nurses, 18951907 -- Research Note: The Male-Female Earnings Differential. A Historical Overview of the Clerical Occupations from the 1880s to the 1970s -- The Labor Market and the American High School Girl 18901928 -- Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force -- Female Solidarity and Professional Success: The Dilemma of Women Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century America -- The Tender Technicians: The Feminization of Public Librarianship, 18761905 -- Women in the Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians -- Self-Assertion and Social Commitment: The Significance of Work to the Progressive Era's New Woman