Foreword by Glenda Riley
Introduction: The Strange Career of Madame Dubuque and Midwestern Women’s History
Wendy Hamand Venet and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
I. Four Lives
1. Leadership within the Women’s Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe
Rebecca Kugel
2. Journeywoman Milliner: Emily Austin, Migration, and Women’s Work in the Nineteenth Century Midwest
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
3. Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping: Women’s Political Activism in Chicago, 1890
Karen M. Mason
4. The Limits of Community: Martha Friesen of Hamilton County, Kansas
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
II. Community and Leadership
5. "For the good of her people": Continuity and Change for Native Women of the Midwest, 1650-1850
6. "Those with whom I feel most nearly connected": Kinship and Gender in Early Ohio
Tamara G. Miller
7. The Ethnic Female Public Sphere: German-American Women in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
Christiane Harzig
8. Sisterhood and Community: The Sisters of Charity and African-American Women’s Health Care in
Indianapolis, 1876-1920
Earline Rae Ferguson
III. Work
9. "The indescribable care devolving upon a housewife": Women’s and Men’s Perceptions of Pioneer
Foodways on the Midwestern Frontier
Sarah F. McMahon
10. Changing Times: Iowa Farm Women and Cooperative Home Economics Extension in the1920s and
1950s
Dorothy Schwieder
11. Women, Unions, and Debates over Work during World War II in Indiana
Nancy F. Gabin
12. "Making Rate": Mexicana Immigrant Workers in an Illinois Electronics Plant
Irene Campos Carr
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