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    Melynda Price: “‘When Black Mothers Weep’: Race, Motherhood and Anti-violence Activism in Detroit”

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    This conference, which was organized by HélÚne Quanquin and HélÚne Le Dantec-Lowry, was held on May 30th, 2018, at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle as an opportunity for guest speaker Melynda Price to present her latest work. Price, a professor of law at the University of Kentucky, specializes in African-American studies and is the author of At the Cross: Race, Religion and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (2015). Her interests include the intersection of the concepts of race, gen..

    Citoyenneté économique et citoyenneté politique des femmes aux Etats-Unis

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    Si les célébrations de la ratification du 19e amendement de la Constitution états-unienne affirment davantage que par le passé que 1920 fut surtout une victoire pour les femmes blanches (Jones M., 2020), il reste à souligner la nécessaire continuité des combats menés pour les droits économiques des Américaines et notamment ceux des femmes de couleur. Distincte de la citoyenneté politique, la citoyenneté « économique » est aujourd'hui un objet d'étude qui complexifie notre vision des luttes fé..

    "Un emploi digne d'une honnĂȘte citoyenne" : la recherche de la citoyennetĂ© Ă©conomique au sein de la Women's Educational and Industrial Union de Boston (1877-1920)

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    Cette thĂšse porte sur la façon dont les rĂ©formatrices de la classe moyenne blanche amĂ©ricaine, Ă©galement sympathisantes du mouvement suffragiste, concevaient l’indĂ©pendance Ă©conomique. Par le biais d’une Ă©tude de cas de la Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) de Boston, l’ouvrage met en lumiĂšre les efforts “pragmatiques” que ces femmes ont dĂ©ployĂ©s pour amĂ©liorer l’accĂšs des femmes Ă  l’éducation et Ă  l’emploi, vus comme complĂ©ment Ă  la campagne pour le droit de vote. De 1877, date de la fondation de la WEIU, et jusqu’en1920, quand le CongrĂšs permit l’accĂšs des femmes au droit de vote, nous Ă©tudions les agentes d’une redĂ©finition de la perception de l’activitĂ© rĂ©munĂ©rĂ©e par les femmes de la classe moyenne blanche. La WEIU se distingue d’autres organisations fĂ©minines contemporaines comme les clubs ou les "settlement houses" par ses efforts prĂ©coces pour Ă©tablir le modĂšle d’une nouvelle institution urbaine dont le financement serait autonome. Les volontaires aisĂ©es qui gĂ©raient les restaurants et boutiques de la WEIU se sont ainsi crĂ©Ă© une carriĂšre commerciale aux accents philanthropiques, avec la volontĂ© d’ouvrir des portes aux autres femmes de Boston. En considĂ©rant les programmes de la WEIU comme l’expression tangible d’idĂ©es sur la place que devaient occuper les femmes dans la sociĂ©tĂ© comme en politique, nous retraçons l’histoire de ses tentatives Ă©conomiques pour corriger les inĂ©galitĂ©s de genre. Nous analysons Ă©galement l’élaboration, socialement situĂ©e, d’une nouvelle conception de l’indĂ©pendance fĂ©minine. Tout au long de la thĂšse, nous dĂ©crivons la façon dont la WEIU modelait une solidaritĂ© entre femmes qui rejetait les relations hiĂ©rarchiques descendantes ayant cours dans les Ɠuvres caritatives, au profit de liens de “coopĂ©ration” – quand bien mĂȘme cette volontĂ© d’ouverture dissimulait une vision relativement Ă©troite de la fĂ©minitĂ© politisĂ©e.This dissertation examines changing ideas of economic independence amidthe white, middle-class reformers who sympathized with the American woman’ssuffrage movement. Through a case study of the Women’s Educational and IndustrialUnion (WEIU) of Boston, this study highlights the “practical” efforts thatsuch women undertook to enhance self-supporting women’s access to educationand jobs, in a more expansive complement to suffragist activism. From 1877,when this class-bridging organization was founded, to 1920, when the us Congressremoved gendered barriers to the right to vote, my project investigates the actorswho worked to redefine perceptions of white, middle-class women’s paid work ina belief that this would help bring about their emancipation. The WEIU stoodout from other female-led organizations like settlements and social clubs becauseof its early interest in developing the template for an urban institution with aself-supporting fundraising model. The affluent volunteers who ran the WEIU’srestaurants and shops fashioned a career in philanthropic business, endeavoring tocreate opportunities both for themselves and for Boston’s women. Treating theorganization’s programs as the tangible expressions of ideas about women’s socialand political roles, I trace the story of their attempt to redress gender-based economicinequalities and analyze the class-based conception of independence thatthey embraced. All the chapters in this dissertation highlight how the WEIU constructedsolidarity between women and rejected top-down, hierarchical notionsof benevolence by championing, instead, what they called “cooperation,” even asthis purported inclusivity actually concealed a rather narrow vision of politicizedwomanhood

    The Boston Women’s Educational and Industrial Union: When Business Undergirded Claims to Political Participation (1877-1920)

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    This article is a case study of a Progressive Era women’s voluntary association, the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. It is an examination of the ways in which some reform organizations headed and staffed by women could embrace and then flaunt a business ethos in order to increase their standing and authority, especially in the context of public–private partnerships. Before the Nineteenth Amendment, at a time of municipal reform, female reformers—even those who were not suffragists—used their shared social background with politicians in a show of gendered class interests. Using Derrick Spire’s framework of “performative citizenship,” we take a look at the way college-educated women constructed an economic and political identity as businesswomen

    "Un emploi digne d'une honnĂȘte citoyenne" : la recherche de la citoyennetĂ© Ă©conomique au sein de la Women's Educational and Industrial Union de Boston (1877-1920)

    No full text
    This dissertation examines changing ideas of economic independence amidthe white, middle-class reformers who sympathized with the American woman’ssuffrage movement. Through a case study of the Women’s Educational and IndustrialUnion (WEIU) of Boston, this study highlights the “practical” efforts thatsuch women undertook to enhance self-supporting women’s access to educationand jobs, in a more expansive complement to suffragist activism. From 1877,when this class-bridging organization was founded, to 1920, when the us Congressremoved gendered barriers to the right to vote, my project investigates the actorswho worked to redefine perceptions of white, middle-class women’s paid work ina belief that this would help bring about their emancipation. The WEIU stoodout from other female-led organizations like settlements and social clubs becauseof its early interest in developing the template for an urban institution with aself-supporting fundraising model. The affluent volunteers who ran the WEIU’srestaurants and shops fashioned a career in philanthropic business, endeavoring tocreate opportunities both for themselves and for Boston’s women. Treating theorganization’s programs as the tangible expressions of ideas about women’s socialand political roles, I trace the story of their attempt to redress gender-based economicinequalities and analyze the class-based conception of independence thatthey embraced. All the chapters in this dissertation highlight how the WEIU constructedsolidarity between women and rejected top-down, hierarchical notionsof benevolence by championing, instead, what they called “cooperation,” even asthis purported inclusivity actually concealed a rather narrow vision of politicizedwomanhood.Cette thĂšse porte sur la façon dont les rĂ©formatrices de la classe moyenne blanche amĂ©ricaine, Ă©galement sympathisantes du mouvement suffragiste, concevaient l’indĂ©pendance Ă©conomique. Par le biais d’une Ă©tude de cas de la Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) de Boston, l’ouvrage met en lumiĂšre les efforts “pragmatiques” que ces femmes ont dĂ©ployĂ©s pour amĂ©liorer l’accĂšs des femmes Ă  l’éducation et Ă  l’emploi, vus comme complĂ©ment Ă  la campagne pour le droit de vote. De 1877, date de la fondation de la WEIU, et jusqu’en1920, quand le CongrĂšs permit l’accĂšs des femmes au droit de vote, nous Ă©tudions les agentes d’une redĂ©finition de la perception de l’activitĂ© rĂ©munĂ©rĂ©e par les femmes de la classe moyenne blanche. La WEIU se distingue d’autres organisations fĂ©minines contemporaines comme les clubs ou les "settlement houses" par ses efforts prĂ©coces pour Ă©tablir le modĂšle d’une nouvelle institution urbaine dont le financement serait autonome. Les volontaires aisĂ©es qui gĂ©raient les restaurants et boutiques de la WEIU se sont ainsi crĂ©Ă© une carriĂšre commerciale aux accents philanthropiques, avec la volontĂ© d’ouvrir des portes aux autres femmes de Boston. En considĂ©rant les programmes de la WEIU comme l’expression tangible d’idĂ©es sur la place que devaient occuper les femmes dans la sociĂ©tĂ© comme en politique, nous retraçons l’histoire de ses tentatives Ă©conomiques pour corriger les inĂ©galitĂ©s de genre. Nous analysons Ă©galement l’élaboration, socialement situĂ©e, d’une nouvelle conception de l’indĂ©pendance fĂ©minine. Tout au long de la thĂšse, nous dĂ©crivons la façon dont la WEIU modelait une solidaritĂ© entre femmes qui rejetait les relations hiĂ©rarchiques descendantes ayant cours dans les Ɠuvres caritatives, au profit de liens de “coopĂ©ration” – quand bien mĂȘme cette volontĂ© d’ouverture dissimulait une vision relativement Ă©troite de la fĂ©minitĂ© politisĂ©e
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