Women Together

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Women Together: Organizational Life -- The "Benevolent Fair": A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century -- Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women's Benevolence in Early 19th-century America -- Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women's Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797-1840 -- Timid Girls, Venerable Widows and Dignified Matrons: Life Cycle Patterns among Organized Women in New York and Boston, 1797-1840 -- Two "Kindred Spirits": Sorority and Family in New England, 1839-1846 -- A "Pleasingly Oppressive" Burden: The Transformation of Domestic Service and Female Charity in Salem, 1800-1840 -- Business Heads and Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the Providence Employment Society, 1837-1858 -- "True Philanthropy" and the Limits of the Female Sphere: Poor Relief and Labor Organizations in Ante-Bellum Cleveland -- The Silent Charity: A History of the Cincinnati Maternity Society -- The 1893 Congress of Jewish Women: Evolution or Revolution in American Jewish Women's History? -- Organized Mother Love: The Buffalo Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1885-1915 -- "Our Sister's Keepers": The Minneapolis Woman's Christian Association and Housing for Working Women -- Civilizing Kansas: Women's Organizations, 1880-1920 -- Jewish Women of the Club: The Changing Public Role of Atlanta's Jewish Women (1870-1930) -- Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women, 1896 to 1901 -- Toward a Broader Angle of Vision in Uncovering Women's History: Black Women's Clubs Revisited -- Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female Educators in the District of Columbia, 1890-1930 -- Women, Consumerism, and the National Consumers' League in the Progressive Era, 1900-1923 -- "Limited Only by Earth and Sky": The Louisville Woman's Club and Progressive Reform, 1900-1910 -- Kansas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1900-1930 -- Working