Rethinking Gender and Power: How Elite Women in Turn-of-the-Century New York Leveraged Wealth to Build Domestic, Philanthropic, and Political Capital

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1
Friday, January 2, 2015: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Concourse F (New York Hilton, Concourse Level)
Chair:
Maureen Montgomery, University of Canterbury
Papers:
Using Privilege to Transcend Tradition: An Analysis of Gender and Power in the Home
Yael Merkin, Harvard University
How the Socialites of Edith Wharton's New York Took Woman's Suffrage from Frumpy to Fashionable
Johanna C. Neuman, American University
Funding the Birth Control Movement: Margaret Sanger’s New York Network of Wealthy Feminists
Joan Marie Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University
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