<p>This volume documents the multiple achievements of U.S. feminism in the early-twentieth century -- a high point of the women's movement -- as well as the oft-forgotten continuation of activism through the century's middle decades. First considered is the emergence of the word feminism and its various and competing definitions, theories, and practices, including the use of the term by pre-World War I Greenwich Village radicals to crystallize their countercultural impulses. Also examined is the "Public Housekeeping" movement; essays and speeches by Jan Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others chart a course for re-organizing civil society by way of women's cooperative values derived from the domestic sphere. An important subject of the second volume is the culmination of the fight for woman's suffrage; this extensive section pays special attention to issues of race, class, regional, and organizational difference leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendmer Documentation of women's widespread efforts to extend political and social power after suffrage is a distinct contribution this volume. The Woman's Party and other political organizations are represented, but focus during the mid-century period is on trade unionism, socialism, and, in general, the struggle improve women's work. Also highlighted is feminist pacifism women's attempts to affect the military-industrial complex during a century of genocide and total war.</p>

Public Women: Vol 2

Politics & Social Sciences

Keetley, Dawn

Social Sciences

Madison Books, Inc

Folk Gothic (Elements in the Gothic)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston

<p><div>When twelve-year-old Jesse Pomeroy tortured seven small boys in the Boston area and then went on to brutally murder two other children, one of the most striking aspects of his case was his inability ever to answer the question of why he did what he did. Whether in court or in the newspapers, many experts tried to explain his horrible acts--and distance the rest of society from them. Despite those efforts, and attempts since, the mystery remains. In this book, Dawn Keetley details the story of Pomeroy's crimes and the intense public outcry. She explores the two reigning theories at the time--that he was shaped before birth when his pregnant mother visited a slaughterhouse and that he imitated brutal acts found in popular dime novels. Keetley then thoughtfully offers a new theory: that Pomeroy suffered a devastating reaction to a smallpox vaccination which altered his brain, creating a psychopath who revealed the human potential for brutality. The reaction to Pomeroy's acts, then and now, demonstrates the struggle to account for exactly those aspects of human nature that remain beyond our ability to understand.</div></p>

History & Criticism

University of Massachusetts Press

<p>When twelve-year-old Jesse Pomeroy tortured seven small boys in the Boston area and then went on to brutally murder two other children, one of the most striking aspects of his case was his inability ever to answer the question of why he did what he did. Whether in court or in the newspapers, many experts tried to explain his horrible acts―and distance the rest of society from them. Despite those efforts, and attempts since, the mystery remains.<br><br>In this book, Dawn Keetley details the story of Pomeroy's crimes and the intense public outcry. She explores the two reigning theories at the time―that he was shaped before birth when his pregnant mother visited a slaughterhouse and that he imitated brutal acts found in popular dime novels. Keetley then thoughtfully offers a new theory: that Pomeroy suffered a devastating reaction to a smallpox vaccination which altered his brain, creating a psychopath who revealed the human potential for brutality. The reaction to Pomeroy's acts, then and now, demonstrates the struggle to account for exactly those aspects of human nature that remain beyond our ability to understand.</p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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