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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Civil War America (Series)
Main Author:	Ziparo, Jessica (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:	Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:	United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women. Women > Employment > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century. Sex role > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century. United States > Officials and employees > History > 19th century. Women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century. Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century. Employees. Sex role. Women. Women > Employment. Women > Social conditions. Women's rights. United States. Washington (D.C.) 1800-1899 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format:	Book

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.