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Women--Their Social and Economic Status. Selected References. INSTITUTIJN Department of Labor, Washington, D.C DOCUMENT RESUME ED 049 371 VT 012 825 AUTHOR Dupont, Julie A. TITLE Women--Their Social and Economic Status. Selected References. INSTITUTIJN Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. Library. PUB DATE Dec 70 NOTE 46p. EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 DESCRIPTORS *Bibliographies, *Economic Status, Federal Legislation, *Females, *Social Status, Working Women ABSTRACT The 396 publications that treat various aspects ot the social and economic status ot women are organized alphabetically by author under these categories: (1) General, (2) Historical, and (3) 19th and 20th Centuries. Each entry includes the author, title, publication information, pagination, an occasional description of the contents, Library of Congress call number, and symbols representing the library holding the document. In addition to the bibliography, a orief description of the Women's Bureau and legislation relating to its founding, and an annotated listing of 23 collections of materials relating to women are provided. (SB) r-iti reN as -4- WOMEN THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS C) L.LJ SELECTED REFERENCES DECEMBER, 1970 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR I WOMEN THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS SELECTED REFERENCES DECEMBER, 1910 Prepared By Julie A. Dupont Bibliographer U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THEPERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT POINTSOF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DONOT NECES SARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICEOF EDU CATION POSITION OR POLICY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR J. D. Hodgson, Secretary LIBRARY Lillian A. Hamrick, Librarian Washington, D.C.20210 CONTENTS Introduction iii Scope of Bibliography iv Social and economic status of womenselected references 1 General 1 Historical 3 Nineteenth and twentieth centuries 5 General 5 Biography 12 Education 14 Employment and wages 16 Feminist movements and organizations 29 Legal status 30 Negro women 31 Suffrage 32 Women and trade unions 35 The Women's Bureau, United States Department of Labor 36 Brief description of the history and function of the Women's Bureau 36 Legislation relating to the foundation of the Women's Bureau 37 A selected list of special collections of materials relating to women in United States libraries 38 iii INTRODUCTION The year 1970 marks the fiftieth anniversary of two important events in the history of the socio-economic status of women in the United States: the granting to women of the right to vote and the establishment in the United States Department of Labor of the Women's Bureau. It is fitting, therefore, that the U.S. Department of Labor Library issue this bibliography encompassing various aspects of the status of women, not only to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of these two historical events, but also to point out that today's "women's movements" had, to a great extent, their forerunners in the years gone by. iv 4 SCOPE OF BIBLIOGRAPHY This bibliography is a very selective list of publications that treat various aspects of the social and economic status of women, primarily with reference to the United States. A few of the materials are of international interest, however, as it is felt that these would aid in the better understanding of the status of women'in this country. Each publication listed is followed by the symbols representing the library holding that book or document. These symbols are the same as those used in the National Union Catalog of the Library of Congress. The following is a list of those symbols used in this bibliography: AAP - Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, CLU - University of California at Los Angeles DL - U,S. Department of Labor Library, Washington, D.C. DLC - U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. MH-BA - Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration. MoKU - University of Missouri at Kansas City. NcU - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Department of Labor Library cannot supply copies of the publications cited herein. Most of the books and docpments indicated as being owned by the Department of Labor Library would be available for research purposes through the Interlibrary Loan borrowing service of the library. Many of these materials are also available at public, college and university libraries. Basic research for this bibliography was completed in May, 1970. v SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN SELECTED REFERENCES GENERAL Borgese, Elisabeth (Mann) Ascent of woman. New York, G. Braziller, 1963. 247 p. HQ1206.B7 (DL) Cassara, Beverly B.,ed. American women: the changing image.Contributors: Ethel J.Alpenfels [and others] Boston, Beacon Press [1962] 141 p. HQ1419.C3 (DL) Chicago Regional Conference on the Changing Status of Women, Roosevelt University, 1962. The changing status of women; report. [Washington] U.S. Dept. of Libor, Women's Bureau [1962?] 48 p. HD6052.C48 1962 (DL) Conference on Woman's DestinyChoice or Chance? University of Washington, 1963.Report. [Washington] U.S. Women's Bureau [1965] 86 p. Sponsors: University of Washington, Committee on Education of Women, Washington State Dept. of Labor and Industries, Women's Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Labor. HQ1403.C5 (DL) Coolidge, Mary R. Why women are so. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1912. 371 p. Attempts to answer the query: Is the characteristic behavior which is called feminine an inalienable quality or merely an attitude of mind produced by the coercive social habits of past times? HQ1206.C7 (DL) De Rham, Edith.The love fraud; a direct attack on the staggering waste of education and talent among American women. New York, Pegasus [c1965] 319 p. HQ1410.D47 (DL) Dialogue on women [by] Esther Milner [and others] Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merill [1967] 98 p. (The Dialogue series, 4) Partial Contents.Women in history, by Philip R.Harris.Wanted: a new self-image for woman, by David C. McClelland.The mother's role, by Esther Milner. HQ1206.D5 (DL) The difference of woman and the difference it makes; a symposium.(In The great ideas today, 1966. Chicago [1966] p. [1]-[98] Contents.How woman differs from man: the facts.Woman: nurture makes the difference, by E. M. Borgese.The changing role of woman: a bio-social interpretation, by L. F. Cervantes.A new look at woman's work, by A. R. Hoffman. The church and women, by J. A. Pike.Women in great books of the western world.Woman: the image of the difference: a pictorial essay. AY59.G7 1966 (DL) Farber, Seymour M. and Roger H. L. Wilson, eds.The challenge to women.New York, Basic Books [1966] 176 p. HQ1419.F3 (DL) Farber, Seymour M. and Roger H.L. Wilson,eds. Man andcivilization:the potential of woman; v symposium. New York, McGraw-Hill [1963] 328 p. HQ1206.F3 (DL) Friedan, Betty. The feminine mystique. New York, W. W. Norton [1963] 410 p. HQ1419.F7 (DL) Goldberg, Dorothy (Kurgans).The creative woman. Washington, Robert B. Luce [1963] 204 p. BF408.G56 (DL) Lewis, Edwin C. Developing woman's potential. [1st ed.] Ames, Iowa State University Press [1968] 389 p. Originally entitled: Toward a new femininity. HQ1419.L48 (DL) 1 6 Marygrove College, Detroit. Into her own; the status of woman from ancient times to the end of the middle ages. Detroit, Mich., Marygrove College, 1946. 66 p. HQ1143.M3 (DL) McMahon, Theresa S. Women and economic evolution; or, The effects of industrial changes upon the status of women. Madison, Wisconsin, 1912. 131 p.(Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin no. 496. Economic and political science series, vol. 7, no. 2) ThesisUniversity of Wisconsin, 1908. HQ1381.M16 (DL) Mill, John S. On liberty, representative government, the subjection of women; three essays. With an introduction by Millicent G. Fawcett. London, Oxford University Press [1969] 548 p. The essay "The Subjection of Women" was first published in 1869. JC585.M55 (DL) Montagu, Ashley. The natural superiority of women. Rev, ed. [New York] Macmillan [1968] 235 p. HQ1206.M6 1968 (DL) Myrdal, Alva (Reimer) and Viola Klein. Women's two roles, home and work.London, Routledge and Paul [1956] 208 p. (International library of sociology and social reconstruction) HD6053.M9 (DL) Parsons, Alice B. Woman's dilemma. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company [c1926] 311 p. "In this book, the author tries to discover whether the physical and mental differences between the sexes are such as to warrant different social functions, and whether the home will. .be endangered if the mother has an outside job." HQ1206.P3 (DL) Spiegel, Jeanne. Sex role concepts, how women and men see themselves and each other; a selected annotated bibliography. [Washington] Business and Professional Women's Foundation [1969] 31 p. Z7164.S42 (DL) The woman question.Selections from the writings of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, V. I. Lenin [and] Joseph Stalin. New York, International Publishers [c1951] 96 p. Partial Contents.The enslavement of women.The exploitation of women.The bourgeois family.Women in the struggle for SocialismSocialism and the emancipation of women. HQ1206.W75 (DL) 2 HISTORICAL Beard, Mary (Ritter) Woman as a force in history; a study in traditions and realities.New York, The Macmillan Company, 1946. 369 p. HQ1121.B3 (DL) Bell, Ralcy H. Woman from bondage to freedom. New York, The Critic and Guide Company, 1921. 230 p. Partial Contents.Earliest mankind.Woman in pre-history.Woman in the borderland of history.The feminist movement.Woman suffrage. HQ1121.B4 (DLC) Benson, Mary S.Women in eighteenth-century America; a study of opinion and social usage.New York [Columbia University Press] 1935.345 p. Thesis (Ph.D.) Columbia University. HQ1416.B4 (DL) Clark, Mice. Working life of women in the seventeenth century. London, G. Rout ledge & Sons, Ltd.;New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1919. 335 p. HD6137.C4 (DL) Dexter, Mrs. Elisabeth W. (Anthony) Colonial women of affairs; women in business and the professions in America before 1776.
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