Respectability and reform : Irish American women's activism, 1880-1920 / Tara M. McCarthy. [electronic resource]
Material type: TextSeries: Irish studiesPublisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages)Content type:- 9780815654360 (e-book)
- Irish American women's activism, 1880-1920
- Ladies' Land League -- History
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History
- Women social reformers -- United States -- History
- Women political activists -- United States -- History
- Labor movement -- United States -- History
- Irish question
- Irish American women -- Political activity
- Irish American women -- History
- Irish Americans -- Politics and government
- 305.4889162073 23
- E184.I6 .M116 2018
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.