Description: Foreword by Glenda Riley Introduction: The Strange Career of Madame Dubuque and Midwestern Women's History Wendy Hamand Venet and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy I. Four Lives 1. Leadership within the Women's Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Rebecca Kugel 2. Journeywoman Milliner: Emily Austin, Migration, and Women's Work in the Nineteenth Century Midwest Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 3. Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping: Women's Political Activism in Chicago, 1890 Karen M. Mason 4. The Limits of Community: Martha Friesen of Hamilton County, Kansas Pamela Riney-Kehrberg II. Community and Leadership 5. "For the good of her people": Continuity and Change for Native Women of the Midwest, 1650-1850 6. "Those with whom I feel most nearly connected": Kinship and Gender in Early Ohio Tamara G. Miller 7. The Ethnic Female Public Sphere: German-American Women in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago Christiane Harzig 8. Sisterhood and Community: The Sisters of Charity and African-American Women's Health Care in Indianapolis, 1876-1920 Earline Rae Ferguson III. Work 9. "The indescribable care devolving upon a housewife": Women's and Men's Perceptions of Pioneer Foodways on the Midwestern Frontier Sarah F. McMahon 10. Changing Times: Iowa Farm Women and Cooperative Home Economics Extension in the1920s and 1950s Dorothy Schwieder 11. Women, Unions, and Debates over Work during World War II in Indiana Nancy F. Gabin 12. "Making Rate": Mexicana Immigrant Workers in an Illinois Electronics Plant Irene Campos Carr Bibliography

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