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Women of the Upper Class

Books on: upper class women

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Women of the Upper Class

Book by Susan A. Ostrander; Temple University Press, 1984

Subjects:

Married Women--United States--Case Studies, Upper Class--United States--Case Studies

Collections: Entire Library

Women of the Upper Class Women in the Political Economy, a...Ostrander, Susan A. Women of the upper class. Women in the political economy Bibliography...the day-to-day activities of upper-class women, with an emphasis on their...
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The "Better Angels" of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative, and Moral Identity among Men of the American Upper Class

Book by Andrew Herman; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Philanthropists--United States--Language, Rich People--United States--Language, Upper Class--Moral And Ethical Aspects--United States, Wealth--Moral And Ethical Aspects--United States

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

What does it mean to be a man of wealth & power? How is the "worth" of wealth translated into moral worth in the identity of wealthy men? How does this identity comprise a mythical place of masculine desire in the social imagination of the American dream? These are the central themes The "Better ...
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What does it mean to be a man of wealth & power? How is the "worth" of wealth translated into moral worth in the identity of wealthy men? How does this identity comprise a mythical place of masculine desire in the social imagination of the American dream? These are the central themes The "Better Angels" of Capitalism explores. Beginning with a series of ethnographic interviews of a variety of wealthy American men, Andrew Herman draws upon diverse perspectives to present a coherent exploration of the sociopolitical implications of being wealthy in an economically unequal-& increasingly unstable-society.
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Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture

Book by Elizabeth Langland; Cornell University Press, 1995

Subjects:

English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Middle Class In Literature, Middle Class Women--Great Britain--History--19th Century

Collections: Entire Library

...of beliefs about men and women, middle and lower classes...the ways in which middleand upper-class children were introduced to...middle class, particularly the upper-middle class, these texts focus on women rather than men, implicitly...
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Speaking of Friendship: Middle-Class Women and Their Friends

Book by Helen Gouldner, Mary Symons Strong; Greenwood Press, 1987

Subjects:

Friendship--United States, Interpersonal Relations, Middle Class Women--United States--Psychology, Women--Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Acknowledgments Introduction Beginnings: Prefriendship and Getting Acquainted Friendship: Its Substance The Extraordinary Relationship Breakdowns, Repairs, and Endings Postscript Bibliography Index
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Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Aelite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

Book by Emily A. Hemelrijk; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Rome--Civilization, Rome--Social Life And Customs, Upper Class Women--Education--Rome--History, Upper Class Women--Rome--History, Upper Class Women--Rome--Intellectual Life

Collections: History, Entire Library

Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235.Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education ...
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Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235.Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education they could reach and the judgement on educated women in Roman society. She examines also the role of women as patronesses of literature, learning and Roman women's writing.
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Journal Articles on: upper class women

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Reconstructing Mothering (1) among Korean Immigrant Working Class Women in the United States

Journal article by Seongeun Kim, Kate Conway-Turner, Bahira Sherif-Trask, Tara Woolfolk; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 37, 2006

Subjects:

Family life, Immigrants--Family, Korean Americans--Family, Motherhood, Working class women--Family

Collections: Entire Library

...standard family role scripts tend to apply only to middle and upper class families, independent of socio-historical time, because...work and family have not been separate in the lives of women of color and working poor families in the United States...
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Hallelujah Lasses in the Battle for Souls: Working- and Middle-class Women in the Salvation Army in the United States, 1872-1896

Journal article by Lillian Taiz; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9, 1997

Subjects:

Women--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...female public work. Culturally dominated by middle- and upper-class members, the WTUL and WCTU relied on notions of "True...them, including "shared distinct emotional qualities: women were more gentle and more moral than men, more sensitive...
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Voices and Silences in Our Classrooms: Strategies for Mapping Trails among Sex/gender, Race, and Class

Journal article by Elizabeth Bell, Kim Golombisky; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 27, 2004

Collections: Entire Library

...retort, "Only some women have the luxury of...that students from upper- and middle-class backgrounds are disturbed...African-American women in college classrooms...and caught in the class trap of not enacting...expected in middle and upper-middle class circles...
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Bawdy Bodies or Moral Agency? the Struggle for Identity in Working-Class Autobiographies of Imperial Germany

Journal article by Birgit A. Jensen; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005

Subjects:

Autobiographies--Analysis, Autobiographies--History, Autobiographies--Works, Working class women--Personal narratives, Working class women--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Arbeitsmenschen, women and men alike. Their...exploitation by an upper-class employer of Frieder...consequences of upper-class exploitation, even...pertained to the women of his own class...as a discursive upper-class strategy to gain...
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Elite Women Workers and Collective Action: The Cigarette Makers of Gijon, 1890-1930

Journal article by Pamela Radcliff; Journal of Social History, Vol. 27, 1993

Subjects:

Collective behavior--Social aspects, Gijon, Spain--Demonstrations, protests, etc., Social action--Analysis, Working class women--Demonstrations, protests, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...countryside(17) that created the citys working-class character.(18) Gijons industrial composition...relative industrial diversity, wage work for women was not plentiful. Domestic servants still...supervision. Men were hired only for the upper levels of management and for the upkeep...

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Magazine Articles on: upper class women

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The Upper Class, Up for Grabs

Magazine article by Nelson W. Aldrich Iv; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 17, Summer 1993

Subjects:

Social conflict--Political aspects, United States--Politics and government, Upper classes--Political activity

Collections: Entire Library

...the Great Depression, the greatest blow to a group of upper-class status-bearers since the age of Jackson. Even during its...windows of Polo HQ. One has only to look at the men and women in Laurens ads, at the stoic set of their mouths and eyes...
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Polite Accomplishments: Anthony Fletcher Delves into the Diaries of Teenage Girls in the Georgian and Victorian Eras to Explore the Little-Changing Constraints, Punishments and Occasional Delights of Being Brought Up a Girl in Upper-Class Britain before the Great War

Magazine article by Anthony Fletcher; History Today, Vol. 58, April 2008

Subjects:

British history, Diaries--Social aspects, Teenage girls--Social aspects, Victorian values

Collections: History, Entire Library

...presentation at court to Queen Victoria in July 1897. For an upper-class mother presentation of her daughter at court was the climax...England (Yale UP, 1995); Christina de Bellaigue, Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France 1800 -1867...
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Soldiering Ahead: Since Women Began Advancing into Its Upper Ranks, the U.S. Military Has Become Both a More Humane Workplace and a More Lethal Fighting Force. What Role Has Female Leadership Played?

Magazine article by Holly Yeager; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 31, Summer 2007

Subjects:

Command of troops--Social aspects, Command of troops--Training, Leadership--Social aspects, Recruiting and enlistment--Research, Recruiting and enlistment--Social aspects, United States. Armed Forces--Demographic aspects, United States. Armed Forces--Laws, regulations and rules, Women and the military--Civil rights, Women and the military--Social aspects, Women military personnel--Civil rights, Women military personnel--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...changes in military culture, however, are likely to be difficult. Along with the physiological fact that most women cannot develop the upper body strength thought to be needed in traditional warfare, general questions about their fitness for the most...
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The Work-Family Dilemma

Magazine article by Ruth Conniff; The Progressive, Vol. 67, February 2003

Subjects:

Can Working Families Ever Win? A New Democracy Forum on Helping Parents Succeed at Work and Caregiving (Book)--Evaluation, Getting By on the Minimum: The Lives of Working-Class Women (Book)--Evaluation, I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother (Book)--Evaluation, Putting Family First: Successful Strategies for Reclaiming Family Life in a Hurry-Up World (Book)--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...this comic manifesto for upper-middle-class strivers will be seen...interviewed many real women before she wrote her...more than sixty working class women in Baltimore to describe...conditions keeps these working class women in their place. Of the...
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The Withering of the Working Class

Magazine article by David R. Carlin Jr.; Commonweal, Vol. 121, October 7, 1994

Subjects:

Social classes--Analysis, Social conflict--Analysis, Working class--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...been an enormous boon to upper-class women. What is rarely noted...class, above all to C-1 women, but to C-1 men and children...predominantly working-class party, a certain number...exaggeration to say that these upper-class people had no desire...

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Newspaper Articles on: upper class women

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A VERY UPPER CLASS TRAITOR; Born Troublemaker: John Amery with His Prostitute Wife Una Wing

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 6, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

A VERY UPPER CLASS TRAITOR; Born Troublemaker...understatement of the British upper classes, they described listeningto...drawing obscene images of naked women and leavingthem around the...believing himself to be an upper-classEnglishman, complete...
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Your Life: Our Bits of Rough; JUST WHY ARE UPPER CLASS GALS DATING DOWN-TO-EARTH GUYS RATHER THAN FELLOW ARISTOS?

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 9, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Our Bits of Rough; JUST WHY ARE UPPER CLASS GALS DATING DOWN-TO-EARTH GUYS RATHER...partners. "Strong, self-assured women like Zara are doing what their hormones...Victoria Hervey THE 27-year-old upper-class lass flirted with Stan Collymore...
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DEBS AT WAR; Born into a World of Privilege and Innocence, When War Broke out Countless Upper-Class Gels Were Plunged into Lives of Danger, Sexual Adventure.And Often Comical Social Embarrassment

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Broke out Countless Upper-Class Gels Were Plunged...Territorial Service, whose women soldiers manned...distrustful of her upper-class accent and manner...pursued by working- class admirers at her...so much for these women. But when it came...
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Upper Class Twits

Newspaper article by Jan Disley; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 3, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...crowned the worst team EVER on University Challenge. The upper-class twits of New Hall College managed just 35 points - the...go. Two of us want to try again next year!" Staff at women-only New Hall insisted the team hadnt disgraced the college...
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Upper Class!

Newspaper article by Louise Oswald; The People (London, England), June 9, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Upper Class! by Louise Oswald...and streamline your upper body - arms, chest...for men and 2lb for women. If you prefer, you...effort. To be safe, women should limit themselves...This will work on the upper and central part of...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: upper class women

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Druids

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...archaeological evidence. The druids constituted a priestly upper class in command of a highly ritualistic religion, which apparently...prophetess, and Irish legend confirms that there were women druids, although their precise role is not known. According...
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Guare, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Separation (1990), a tragicomedy about the havoc wrought on an upper-class family by a charming young con artist; the play explores...family Lydie Breeze (1982), Gardenia (1982), and Women and Water (1990) and Lake Hollywood (1999). See study...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...tragedies, which emphasize women characters and psychological...perfection of style and cynical upper-class wit that is still appreciated...lives of minorities and women. Beginning with Lorraine...century. Feminist and other women-centered themes dramatized...
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Strindberg, Johan August

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...stories in Married (2 vol., 1884 85), which derogated women and denounced conventional religious practices. Although...Julie is a psychological study of the seduction of an upper-class woman by an insensitive chauffeur. These works show the...
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Psychoanalysis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...have also pointed out that Freuds theoretical models arise from a homogeneous sample group almost exclusively upper-class Austrian women living in the sexually repressed society of the late 19th cent. Such a sample, many psychologists contend, made...

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