Author: Annabel Murray Stewart
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 278
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Total Pages: 1528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0774869232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The YWCA arrived in China as a cultural interloper in 1899. How did activist Christian Chinese women maintain their identity and social relevance through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century? The YWCA in China explores how the Young Women’s Christian Association responded to the needs of Chinese women and society both before and after the 1949 revolution ushered in a communist state. Western secretaries originally defined the Chinese YWCA movement, but successive generations of Chinese leadership localized its Western-defined organizational ethos. Over time, "the Y" became class conscious and progressive as Chinese women transformed it from a vehicle for moral and material uplift to an instrument for social action and an organizational citizen of China. And after 1949, national YWCA leaders supported the Maoist regime because they believed the social goals of the YWCA aligned with Mao’s revolutionary aims. The YWCA in China is a fascinating investigation of the lives, thinking, and action of women whose varied forms of Christian and Chinese identity were buffeted by historical events that moulded their social philosophies.
Author: Nancy Marie Robertson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0252031938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the major national biracial women's organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) provided a unique venue for women to respond to American race relations during the first half of the twentieth century. In Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46, Nancy Marie Robertson shows how women of both races employed different understandings of "Christian sisterhood" in their responses. Although the YWCA was segregated at the local level, African American women were able to effectively challenge white women over YWCA racial policies and practices. Robertson argues that from 1906 through 1946, many white women in the association went from seeing segregation as compatible with Christianity and democracy to regarding it as a contradiction of those values. These struggles laid the groundwork for the subsequent civil rights movement. Her analysis relies not only on a large body of records documenting YWCA women at the national and local levels, but also on autobiographical accounts and personal papers from women associated with the YWCA, including Dorothy Height, Lugenia Burns Hope, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Lillian Smith. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White
Author: Robin Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-25
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1315483475
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of a dedicated group of foreign and Chinese reformers who tried, but failed, to solve China's intractable industrial problems over the three decades prior to 1949. It explores the complex rivalries of Chinese and foreigners against a backdrop of extreme nationalism.