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Journal articles on the topic "Young Women's Christian associations – History"

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Dumenil, Lynn. "Women's Reform Organizations and Wartime Mobilization in World War I-Era Los Angeles." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10, no. 2 (2011): 213–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781410000162.

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During World War I, the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense served as an intermediary between the federal government and women's voluntary associations. This study of white middle- and upper-middle-class clubwomen in Los Angeles, California reveals ways in which local women pursued twin goals of aiding the war effort while pursuing their own, pre-existing agendas. Women in a wide variety of groups, including organizations associated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Red Cross,

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Phoenix, Karen. "A Social Gospel for India." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 13, no. 2 (2014): 200–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781414000073.

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This article discusses the ways that secretaries in the U.S. Young Women's Christian Association (USYWCA) used the Social Gospel to create a type of imagined community, which I call Y-space, in India. In the United States, USYWCA secretaries emphasized Social Gospel ideals such as the personal embodiment of Christ-like behavior, inclusivity, and working for the progress of society. In India, USYWCA secretaries used these same ideas to try to make Y-space an alternative to both the exclusive, traditional, British imperial “clubland” and the growing Hindu and Muslim nationalist movement. Instead

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Verbrugge, Martha H. "Recreation and Racial Politics in the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1920s–1950s." International Journal of the History of Sport 27, no. 7 (2010): 1191–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523361003695793.

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Pedersen, Diana. ""Building Today for the Womanhood of Tomorrow": Businessmen, Boosters, and the YWCA, 1890-1930." Articles 15, no. 3 (2013): 225–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1018017ar.

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Women's organizations played an active part in the Progressive movement for the reform of North American cities in the early twentieth century. Women reformers could and did cooperate with men but had their own distinct perception of the city and their own definition of urban reform. Lacking capital and political power, however, women were forced to depend on the support of male reformers and had to address themselves to the men's concerns. This study examines the relationship between the Young Women's Christian Association and Canadian businessmen as it was manifested in a number of successfu

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Allen, Margaret. "“That's the Modern Girl”: Missionary Women and Modernity in Kolkata, c. 1907 - c. 1940." Itinerario 34, no. 3 (2010): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115310000707.

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In 1923, three young single western women—Margaret Read, Iris Wingate, and Eleanor Rivett—made an adventurous summer trip riding and trekking from Kalimpong in West Bengal, right up to Sikkim. Read and Wingate, both wearing riding breeches and with hair bobbed, were somewhat more adventurous, continuing their trip to Tibet. This was a holiday from their work in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), the great cosmopolitan city of the British Raj in India. Surely these independent and mobile women were reminiscent of “the Modern Girl” that has been “singled out as a marker of ‘modernity’”. However, these

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Dorn, Charles. "“A Woman's World”: The University of California, Berkeley, During the Second World War." History of Education Quarterly 48, no. 4 (2008): 534–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2008.00169.x.

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The fairer sex takes over and the campus becomes a woman's world. They step in and fill the shoes of the departing men and they reveal a wealth of undiscovered ability. The fate of the A.S.U.C. [Associated Students of the University of California] and its activities rests in their hands and they assume the responsibility of their new tasks with sincerity and confidence. —Blue and Gold, University of California, Berkeley, 1943During World War II, female students at the University of California, Berkeley—then the most populous undergraduate campus in American higher education—made significant ad

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Johnson, Val Marie. "“The Half Has Never Been Told”: Maritcha Lyons’ Community, Black Women Educators, the Woman’s Loyal Union, and “the Color Line” in Progressive Era Brooklyn and New York." Journal of Urban History 44, no. 5 (2017): 835–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144217692931.

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Schoolteacher Maritcha Lyons was among the pioneering African American women who, in 1892, built one of the first women’s rights and racial justice organizations in the United States, the Woman’s Loyal Union of New York and Brooklyn (WLU). The WLU is recognized for its antilynching work in alliance with Ida B. Wells, and as an organizational springboard to the National Association of Colored Women. This essay examines struggles on “the color line” by Lyons, other WLU members, and women educators, through their community’s engagement in 1880s and 1890s Brooklyn and New York contention over scho

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Wong, Wai Yin Christina. "Shifting Memories." Social Sciences and Missions 33, no. 1-2 (2020): 157–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03301011.

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Abstract Five years after the establishment of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in 1894 under the influence of the Protestant evangelical movement the Chinese YWCA national committee was founded in 1899. Shortly after the overthrow of the Manchu Empire, the Canton YWCA was founded in 1912, the first year of the Republic of China. In this study I examine three oral history interviews with former YWCA staff, supplemented by the written recollections of a former general secretary and other scarce materials to reconstruct the fragmented work of the Canton YWCA in the 1940s. In

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Womack, Deanna Ferree. "“To Promote the Cause of Christ's Kingdom”: International Student Associations and the “Revival” of Middle Eastern Christianity." Church History 88, no. 1 (2019): 150–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640719000556.

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This article traces the presence in the Arab world of international Christian student organizations like the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) and its intercollegiate branches of the YMCA and YWCA associated with the Protestant missionary movement in nineteenth-century Beirut. There, an American-affiliated branch of the YMCA emerged at Syrian Protestant College in the 1890s, and the Christian women's student movement formed in the early twentieth century after a visit from WSCF secretaries John Mott and Ruth Rouse. As such, student movements took on lives of their own, and they develop

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Steinhoff, Anthony J. "A Feminized Church? The Campaign for Women's Suffrage in Alsace-Lorraine's Protestant Churches, 1907–1914." Central European History 38, no. 2 (2005): 218–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916105775563698.

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By 1850, a major shift in how Europeans participated in the Christian religion was well underway. On Sundays, most members of a church's or chapel's congregation were women. Women received communion more assiduously than their male counterparts. Catholic religious congregations for women were founded and joined at rates well above those for men. In Protestant lands, women became deaconesses. From Italy to Scotland, women contributed greatly to churches' social and charitable missions through their active involvement in voluntary associations and parish committees. Moreover, mothers now had the

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Young Women's Christian associations – History"

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Koch, Dorothy Beryl Jackson. "The Canadian YMCA (1966-1996), a movement towards inclusion." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0018/MQ48830.pdf.

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Heavens, John Edmund. "The International Committee of the North American Young Men's Christian Association and its foreign work in China, 1895-1937." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707974.

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Lewis, Abigail Sara. ""The barrier breaking love of God" the multiracial activism of the Young Women's Christian Association, 1940s to 1970s." 2008. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.17516.

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"性別視角下的中華基督教女青年會研究(1890-1937)". Thesis, 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6075289.

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However, from a political view, the YWCA is underestimated because it failed to lead the Chinese women to the final liberation through a revolutionary way. This dissertation attempts to represent the YWCA history in Modern Chinese from a gender perspective and emphasize its meaning to Chinese women's development which is beyond the body liberation. In addition, it is hoped to present a case study that reveals the evaluation bias that women movement and women organizations have to face up today. Recognizing the obstruction and the shackles of male hierarchy should benefit the independent constr

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Detellier, Élise. ""They always remain girls" : la re/production des rapports de genre dans les sports féminins au Québec, 1919-1961." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5319.

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Cette thèse lève en partie le voile sur l’histoire des sports féminins au Québec de 1919 à 1961, soit de l’âge d’or des sports féminins au Canada jusqu’à l’adoption de la Loi sur la condition physique et le sport amateur par le gouvernement fédéral. Elle montre comment les rapports de genre ont été re/produits dans les sports féminins en étudiant les discours et les pratiques, tout en portant une attention particulière à l’influence qu’exercent l’appartenance de classe, l’ethnicité et la religion sur les sports féminins. L’analyse se penche d’abord sur les discours des médecins, des professeur

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Burlock, Melissa Grace. "The Battle Over A Black YMCA and Its Inner-City Community: The Fall Creek Parkway YMCA As A Lens On Indianapolis’ Urban Revitalization and School Desegregation, 1959-2003." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5222.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>The narrative of the Fall Creek Parkway YMCA is central to the record of the historically black community northwest of downtown Indianapolis, which was established in the early 1900s, as well as reflective of the urban revitalization projects and demographic fluxes that changed this community beginning in the 1960s. This is because the conflict between administrators of the Fall Creek YMCA branch and Greater Indianapolis YMCA or Metropolitan YMCA over the viability of the branch at 10th Street and Indiana Avenue was a microcosm of th

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Books on the topic "Young Women's Christian associations – History"

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Sebire, Dawn. A woman's place: The history of the Hamilton Young Women's Christian Association. Printed by Seldon Printing, 1990.

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Cuthbertson, Gregor. God, youth & women: The YWCAs of Southern Africa, 1886-1986. The YWCAs, 1986.

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1961-, Mjagkij Nina, and Spratt Margaret 1955-, eds. Men and women adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the city. New York University Press, 1997.

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Sebire, Dawn. A Woman's Place: The History of the Hamilton Youn Women's Christian Association. Hamilton YWCA, 1989.

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Klure, Laura L. Let's be doers: A history of the YMCA of Riverside, California, 1906-1992. Riverside YMCA, 1992.

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A simple matter of justice: The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA story. Exposition Press of Florida, 1985.

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Hanʾguk yŏsŏng Kidokkyo sahoe undongsa. Hyean, 2000.

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Seymour-Jones, Carole. Journey of faith: The history of the World YWCA, 1945-1994. Allison & Busby, 1994.

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Fifty years of Association work among young women, 1866-1916. Garland, 1987.

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Coney, Sandra. Every girl: A social history of women and the YWCA in Auckland, 1885-1985. YWCA, 1986.

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Bali, Rifat N. "A Short History Of The Young Women's Christian Association (Ywca) Activities In Turkey." In A Bridge between Cultures, edited by Sinan Kuneralp. Gorgias Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.31826/9781463225971-012.

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Higgs, Eleanor Tiplady. "Becoming ‘Multi-Racial'." In Gender and Diversity Issues in Religious-Based Institutions and Organizations. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8772-1.ch002.

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This chapter addresses issues of identity and racial exclusion by looking at Christianity and whiteness at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in the context of late colonial Kenya. Between 1955 and 1965, Kenya YWCA rejected its identity as an organization for white/European women, and became inclusive of African women for the first time. The history of Kenya YWCA written by its last white leader, Vera Harley, is an important source of information about this period in Kenya YWCA's history. The narrative Harley constructs is an important part of the identity of the organization in the present day. Studying this narrative of ‘race' and inclusion yields two key insights; firstly, that in late colonial Kenya racial and religious identity were strongly connected, even mutually constitutive. Secondly, women in African contexts have historically been excluded from (some) Christian organisations.

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Higgs, Eleanor Tiplady. "Becoming ‘Multi-Racial'." In Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3435-9.ch018.

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This chapter addresses issues of identity and racial exclusion by looking at Christianity and whiteness at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in the context of late colonial Kenya. Between 1955 and 1965, Kenya YWCA rejected its identity as an organization for white/European women, and became inclusive of African women for the first time. The history of Kenya YWCA written by its last white leader, Vera Harley, is an important source of information about this period in Kenya YWCA's history. The narrative Harley constructs is an important part of the identity of the organization in the present day. Studying this narrative of ‘race' and inclusion yields two key insights; firstly, that in late colonial Kenya racial and religious identity were strongly connected, even mutually constitutive. Secondly, women in African contexts have historically been excluded from (some) Christian organisations.

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Dumenil, Lynn. "Channeling Womanpower." In The Second Line of Defense. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631219.003.0003.

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This chapter examines women's voluntary associations' role in mobilization. It examining the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Association of Colored Women, and the American Red Cross, it analyzes the way in which women activists conjoined the war emergency to their own goals of staking their claim to full citizenship, and continuing their reform agendas begun in the Progressive reform era. As they did so, white women invoked “maternalism” and emphasized the instrumental role that women played in protecting the family. African American activists similarly focused on the centrality of women citizens, but did so in the specific context of racial uplift. Their engagement in meaningful war work encouraged them to view the war – over optimistically as it turned out – as an opportunity to achieve both long-standing reform goals and an enhanced role for women in public life.

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