Women's concerns
Subtitle: twelve women entrepreneurs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
By: Jill Jepson.
Series: American University studies XXVII : feminist studies -- v. 11
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781433104237
Subjects: Entrepreneurship -- History; Businesswomen -- History; Entrepreneurship -- Case studies; Businesswomen -- Case studies; Success in business
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Women entrepreneurs in the era of separate spheres; title: Feminine identity and masculine work. Eliza Lucas Pinkney, Rebecca Lukens, & Charlotte Guest; title: Dislocating the separate spheres. Martha Coston & Elizabeth Murray; title: Solitude and the politics of otherness. Elizabeth Allston Pringle & Sarah Goff Heckford; title: Disruption and disguise in African American women's entrepreneurship. Mary Ellen Pleasant, Elizabeth Keckley & Eliza Potter; title: Managing public image in the gilded age. Hetty Green & Miriam Leslie; title: Conclusion.