Rethinking Municipal Housekeeping: Hull-Houses Women and Sanitation Reform in Chicago, 1889-1913
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13930735842021-08-03T06:22:36Z Rethinking Municipal Housekeeping: Hull-Houses Women and Sanitation Reform in Chicago, 1889-1913 Montrie, Chadwick Dushane History When historians have interpreted the efforts of women to address what amounted to an urban environmental crisis during the Progressive era they have discussed that activity as "municipal housekeeping." Women reformers themselves used this metaphor to refer to a supposedly natural expansion of women’s traditional roles to include addressing particular social problems outside the domestic sphere. But municipal housekeeping was not unproblematic. The complexity of this reform activity was manifested in the efforts of the women working out of the Hull House settlement to improve the collection of refuse in the nineteenth ward. The settlement women’s struggle for an improvement in the sanitary condition of the district was hindered by criticism generated as the result of the challenge it posed to gender relations and women’s subordination as well as by opposition which stemmed from the paternalism permeating the reform efforts. Municipal housekeeping was not simply a natural extension of women’s domestic duties, a product of social consensus about women’s place in society, or a benign effort, free of prejudice and paternalism, to improve the urban environment. 1997 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393073584 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393073584 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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