How women saved the city / Daphne Spain.

Author: Spain, Daphne.

Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.

ISBN: 0816635315 (HC/J : alk. paper)
0816635323 (PB : alk. paper)

Description: xvii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject: Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. History.
National Association of Colored Women (U.S.) History.
Salvation Army of America History.
Women social reformers United States History.
Women in public life United States History.
Women United States Societies, etc.
Social settlements United States History.

Contents: Voluntary vernacular -- Why cities needed saving -- Sacred and secular organizational ideologies -- Voluntary associations with an urban presence -- New York City headquarters, smaller city branches -- Boston, the cradle of redemptive places -- Men build Chicago's skyline, women redeem the city -- How women saved the city -- Appendix A : literature review -- Appendix B : organizational charters -- Appendix C : addresses of redemptive places for Boston, New York City, and Chicago.