This grand experiment : when women entered the federal workforce in Civil War-era Washington, D.C. / Jessica Ziparo.

Author/creator Ziparo, Jessica author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Descriptionxii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Women--Employment. --Washington (D.C.). --History. --19th century.
Sex role--Washington (D.C.). --History. --19th century.
Women--United States. --Social conditions. --19th century.
Women's rights--United States. --History. --19th century.
United States--History. --Civil War, 1861-1865. --Women.
United States--Officials and employees. --History. --19th century.

SeriesCivil War America
Civil War America (Series) ^A325557
Contents We are not playthings -- I wonder if I cannot make application for an appointment too: women join the federal workforce -- Telling her story to a man: applying for government work -- Teapots in the treasury of the nation: gendering work and space -- A strange time to seek a residence in Washington: perils and possibilities of life for female federal clerks -- The picked prostitutes of the land: reputations of female federal employees -- I am now exerting all my thinking powers: women's struggle to retain and to regain federal positions -- What makes us to differ from them?: the argument for equal pay in the nation's capital -- We do not intend to give up.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017013226
ISBN9781469635972 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469635976 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN(ebook)