Boston and New England in 1812

Howe, Henry F.

doi:10.1056/nejm196201042660106

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“…Her suffrage work was done in white controlled organizations and she seems to have made a significant positive impression on the women with whom she mingled there. Julia Ward Howe (1904), with whom she co-founded the AWSA, included St Pierre Ruffin’s biography in a book written at the turn of the twentieth century on key New England women. The Massachusetts delegation at the women’s federation meeting in 1900 defended the right of her Woman’s Era Club to take part in the conference.…”

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“…During the Civil War, the Ruffins helped recruit Black soldiers for the Union Army’s Black 54 and 55 Massachusetts regiments. They contributed to the United States Sanitary Commission, a private relief agency for the soldiers (Howe, 1904). Cromwell (1994) situates the Ruffins in a Black elite enclave whose members had lavishly furnished homes and who employed white servants.…”

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Race, class, gender and social entrepreneurship: extending the positionality of icons

Schachter

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to add information on how women's voices enriched American social entrepreneurship in the Progressive era. While most discussions of women as social entrepreneurs have centered on white middle class women, this article profiles two female agents for change and innovation who came out of the white working class and Boston's Black elite, respectively. These additions provide an analysis of female participation that takes account of issues of intersectionality and positionality, important concepts in contemporary critical theory. Design/methodology/approach This article extends our understanding of women's role as social entrepreneurs in the early twentieth century by offering biographies of Rose Schneiderman and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin based on extensive examination of sources from Progressive era documents to contemporary scholarly analyses. Inclusion of Progressive era sources enables the narrative to suggest how these social entrepreneurs were viewed in their own day. Findings Biographies of Rose Schneiderman and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin indicate the broad range of women who developed new organizations to serve traditionally marginalized populations in the Progressive era. The article shows the types of obstacles each woman faced; it enumerates strategies they used to further their aims as well as recording some of the times they could not surmount class- or race-based obstacles placed in their paths. Originality/value At a time when issues of intersectionality and positionality have become more prominent in management discourse, this article expands the class and race backgrounds of women specifically proposed as icons of social entrepreneurship. It represents an early attempt to link these concepts with the study of entrepreneurship.

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Section: Two Social Entrepreneurs Of the Progressive Eramentioning

confidence: 99%