6 research outputs found
Melynda Price: ââWhen Black Mothers Weepâ: Race, Motherhood and Anti-violence Activism in Detroitâ
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
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)
Cette thĂšse porte sur la façon dont les rĂ©formatrices de la classe moyenne blanche amĂ©ricaine, Ă©galement sympathisantes du mouvement suffragiste, concevaient lâindĂ©pendance Ă©conomique. Par le biais dâune Ă©tude de cas de la Womenâs Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) de Boston, lâouvrage met en lumiĂšre les efforts âpragmatiquesâ que ces femmes ont dĂ©ployĂ©s pour amĂ©liorer lâaccĂšs des femmes Ă lâĂ©ducation et Ă lâemploi, vus comme complĂ©ment Ă la campagne pour le droit de vote. De 1877, date de la fondation de la WEIU, et jusquâen1920, quand le CongrĂšs permit lâaccĂšs des femmes au droit de vote, nous Ă©tudions les agentes dâune redĂ©finition de la perception de lâactivitĂ© rĂ©munĂ©rĂ©e par les femmes de la classe moyenne blanche. La WEIU se distingue dâautres organisations fĂ©minines contemporaines comme les clubs ou les "settlement houses" par ses efforts prĂ©coces pour Ă©tablir le modĂšle dâune 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© dâouvrir des portes aux autres femmes de Boston. En considĂ©rant les programmes de la WEIU comme lâexpression tangible dâidĂ©es sur la place que devaient occuper les femmes dans la sociĂ©tĂ© comme en politique, nous retraçons lâhistoire de ses tentatives Ă©conomiques pour corriger les inĂ©galitĂ©s de genre. Nous analysons Ă©galement lâĂ©laboration, socialement situĂ©e, dâune nouvelle conception de lâindĂ©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 Ćuvres caritatives, au profit de liens de âcoopĂ©rationâ â quand bien mĂȘme cette volontĂ© dâouverture 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 womanâssuffrage movement. Through a case study of the Womenâs Educational and IndustrialUnion (WEIU) of Boston, this study highlights the âpracticalâ efforts thatsuch women undertook to enhance self-supporting womenâs 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 womenâs 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 WEIUâsrestaurants and shops fashioned a career in philanthropic business, endeavoring tocreate opportunities both for themselves and for Bostonâs women. Treating theorganizationâs programs as the tangible expressions of ideas about womenâs 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 âcooperation,â even asthis purported inclusivity actually concealed a rather narrow vision of politicizedwomanhood
The Boston Womenâs Educational and Industrial Union: When Business Undergirded Claims to Political Participation (1877-1920)
This article is a case study of a Progressive Era womenâs voluntary association, the Womenâs 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 publicâprivate partnerships. Before the Nineteenth Amendment, at a time of municipal reform, female reformersâeven those who were not suffragistsâused their shared social background with politicians in a show of gendered class interests. Using Derrick Spireâs framework of âperformative citizenship,â 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)
This dissertation examines changing ideas of economic independence amidthe white, middle-class reformers who sympathized with the American womanâssuffrage movement. Through a case study of the Womenâs Educational and IndustrialUnion (WEIU) of Boston, this study highlights the âpracticalâ efforts thatsuch women undertook to enhance self-supporting womenâs 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 womenâs 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 WEIUâsrestaurants and shops fashioned a career in philanthropic business, endeavoring tocreate opportunities both for themselves and for Bostonâs women. Treating theorganizationâs programs as the tangible expressions of ideas about womenâs 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 âcooperation,â 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 lâindĂ©pendance Ă©conomique. Par le biais dâune Ă©tude de cas de la Womenâs Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) de Boston, lâouvrage met en lumiĂšre les efforts âpragmatiquesâ que ces femmes ont dĂ©ployĂ©s pour amĂ©liorer lâaccĂšs des femmes Ă lâĂ©ducation et Ă lâemploi, vus comme complĂ©ment Ă la campagne pour le droit de vote. De 1877, date de la fondation de la WEIU, et jusquâen1920, quand le CongrĂšs permit lâaccĂšs des femmes au droit de vote, nous Ă©tudions les agentes dâune redĂ©finition de la perception de lâactivitĂ© rĂ©munĂ©rĂ©e par les femmes de la classe moyenne blanche. La WEIU se distingue dâautres organisations fĂ©minines contemporaines comme les clubs ou les "settlement houses" par ses efforts prĂ©coces pour Ă©tablir le modĂšle dâune 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© dâouvrir des portes aux autres femmes de Boston. En considĂ©rant les programmes de la WEIU comme lâexpression tangible dâidĂ©es sur la place que devaient occuper les femmes dans la sociĂ©tĂ© comme en politique, nous retraçons lâhistoire de ses tentatives Ă©conomiques pour corriger les inĂ©galitĂ©s de genre. Nous analysons Ă©galement lâĂ©laboration, socialement situĂ©e, dâune nouvelle conception de lâindĂ©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 Ćuvres caritatives, au profit de liens de âcoopĂ©rationâ â quand bien mĂȘme cette volontĂ© dâouverture dissimulait une vision relativement Ă©troite de la fĂ©minitĂ© politisĂ©e