THE WOMAN CITIZEN'S LIBRARY:; A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the larger citizenship. Eleven of twelve volumes, fully illustrated
1913 · Chicago
by MATHEWS, Shailer, Ed
Chicago: Civics Society, 1913. 8vo, Bound in publisher's limp leather (most of the leather is missing from the spine of volume one, other volumes show some wear), a good set. Lacks Volume 2. This is an incomplete selection of volumes from this very important set of information for the newly active political women. Included are volumes: Vol.I, III, "Political Science" which includes a section on woman suffrage by Carrie Chapman Catt and others; Vol. IV-VI, "Practical Politics" which includes sections on local government, rural government, state government, federal government and governmental agencies; Vol VII-VIII :"A World Review of Woman Suffrage (Carrie C. Catt ), Woman Suffrage in the US (Mary Grey Peck),"The No Vote No Tax Movement", etc.; Vol VII is "Woman and the Law" . Vol IX-XI "The Larger Citizenship" which includes "Why Women are Concerned With the Larger Citizenship" by Jane Addams of Hull House, "The Ideal City" by Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley, the prevention of vice, the child laborer, "Factory Inspection" by Florence Kelley, "Trade Unionism for Women" by Margaret D Robins, etc. ; Vol. XII concerns "The Woman Citizen and the Home (Inventory #: 44699)