Municipal Housekeeping: A Symposium Women's Political Activism in Chicago, 1890-1920.
Chicago: Lithographed by Millar Pub. Co., 1938. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover.
Blue cloth with stamped gold titles; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with some rubbing on the edges. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; xii, 132 pages with illustrations.
Social housekeeping, also known as municipal or civil housekeeping, was a socio-political movement that occurred primarily through the 1880s to the early 1900s in the Progressive Era around the United States.
The movement expanded the customary view of a woman's domain as the home, to portray the community as extension of this sphere of influence. The language of social housekeeping served to justify increased female participation in socio-political matters.
Those involved in the movement sought both legislative and social reform for issues including education, regulation of foodstuffs and medicines, sanitation, and health. The reform occurred outside of the exclusionary political structures and instead in women's clubs, colleges, and settlement houses. [wiki]
Reformer Mary Eliza McDowell, called the "Angel of the Stockyards," belonged to a breed of activists who at the turn of the 20th century fought big business and apathetic government to improve the lives of the poor, the desperate, and the immigrant, which often intersected came from a family of strong abolitionists in the era of slavery. Among her many causes she is best remembered for who helping to improve living conditions in Chicago's squalid meat-packing district. [encyonline]
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