Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 2. -- Hull-House as Women's Space -- Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers -- POVERTY, RESPECTABILITY, AND ABILITY TO WORK -- THE BONDS OF BELONGING: LEONORA O'REILLY AND SOCIAL REFORM -- FEMINISM OR UNIONISM? THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S TRADE UNION LEAGUE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT -- Mother's Day: The Creation, Promotion and Meaning of a New Holiday in the Progressive Era -- EARLY COMMUNITY WORK OF BLACK CLUB WOMEN -- School Reform in the New South: The Woman's Association for the Betterment of Public School Houses in North Carolina, 1902-1919 -- ORGANIZED WOMEN AS LOBBYISTS IN THE 1920'S -- SOCIAL FEMINISM IN THE 1920s: PROGRESSIVE WOMEN AND INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION -- After Suffrage: Southern Women in the Twenties -- The National Women's Relief Society and the U.S. Sheppard-Towner Act -- The Southern Summer School for Women Workers -- The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1942 -- THE LADIES AND THE LYNCHERS: A LOOK AT THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN WOMEN FOR THE PREVENTION OF LYNCHING -- WOMEN AGAINST PROHIBITION -- LADIES' DAY AT THE CAPITOL: WOMEN STRIKE FOR PEACE VERSUS HUAC -- The Gender Basis of American Social Policy -- Copyright Information -- Index