Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933

From: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. By Maureen Flanagan (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 319. Illus., maps, notes, bib., index. Cloth, $35.00).

In this engaging and well-researched book, Maureen Flanagan examines the history of women's political activism in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon the records of women's civic organizations and leading activist women, she shows how women built a multi-generational political movement around a vision of the city "that promoted ...

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