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club·wom·an

 (klŭb′wo͝om′ən)
n.
A woman who is a member of a club or clubs, especially one who is active in club life.

clubwoman

(ˈklʌbˌwʊmən)
n, pl -women
a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
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Clubwoman as Feminist: True, Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914.
A seat at the table: women teachers and the domestication of politics in Chicago
271) It was not until 1918 when clubwoman Grace Wilson, a probation officer for the Negro Fellowship League and "house mother" for the Industrial School for Girls, became the first black policewoman in both Chicago and in the United States.
Blackness as delinquency
Washington selected and arranged by clubwoman Victoria Earle Matthews in 1898 and later re-released in 1995 as Black Diamonds: The Wisdom of Booker T.
In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty's Champion
A Boston clubwoman proposed that Massachusetts enact a law requiring that stenographers be surrounded by wire cages so they could work unmolested by men.
The passport to hell
A few key studies are Karen Blair, The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914 (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980); Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); Gayle Ann Gullett, Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and
"Women who build": Julia Morgan & Women's Institutions
However, in the same year, Irene McCoy Gaines, a prominent Chicago clubwoman who had recently been appointed an executive to the ASNLH's national council, blocked the group from obtaining a charter for a chapter.
Margaret T.G. Burroughs and black public history in Cold War Chicago
Clubwoman Rose Wallace was crucial to the creation and operation of Tehachapi and yet often ran afoul of both male politicians and other clubwomen, most notably over the firing of superintendent Florence Monahan in 1939.
Hard Time at Tehachapi: California's First Women's Prison
Agnes Morely Cleaveland (1874-1958) was a rancher, writer and clubwoman who was born in New Mexico at the height of the range wars.
Open range; the life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland
Currently she is writing a biography of Jessie Jack Hooper, suffragist, clubwoman, and world peace advocate from Oshkosh, whom she has been bringing to life in impersonations since 2008.
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL AND ACADEMIC: MEMOIRS OF WOMEN'S STUDIES PIONEERS
Malcolm refused to have any part in this litigation, the plaintiff being a prominent clubwoman and friend of his wife.
Oral history of Leon Thomas David (1901-1994) (p. 8-50)
Her series of "Famous Women" biographies in Colored American Magazine demonstrates Hopkins's "solidarity" with this conservative, exclusionary ideology; at the same time, she exposed the black haute bourgeoisie's conspicuous consumption and social condescension in her 1900 novel Contending Forces, whose tedious clubwoman Mrs.
A Black Daughter of the Revolution
51) Hurst, who campaigned on her clubwoman status, was secretary of the Nevada Equal Franchise Society, president of the Woman Citizens' Club, and a member of Reno's prestigious Twentieth Century Club.
Smokin' in the boys' room: a case study of women state legislators in Nevada, 1919-1931
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