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Author McCarthy, Tara M., author

Title Respectability and reform : Irish American women's activism, 1880-1920 / Tara M. McCarthy
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Irish studies
Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on October 8, 2020)
Subject Ladies' Land League -- History
SUBJECT Ladies' Land League fast
Institut de Recherches en Informatique Nantes gnd
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Irish American women -- Political activity
Women political activists -- United States -- History
Irish question.
Labor movement -- United States -- History
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History
Women social reformers -- United States -- History
Irish American women -- History
Irish Americans -- Politics and government
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
Irish American women
Irish Americans -- Politics and government
Irish question
Labor movement
Women political activists
Women social reformers
Women -- Suffrage
Einwanderin
Politische Beteiligung
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018000670
ISBN 9780815654360
0815654367
Other Titles Irish American women's activism, 1880-1920