TitleMen and women adrift : the YMCA and the YWCA in the city / edited by Nina Mjagkij and Margaret Spratt.
PublishedNew York : New York University Press, c1997.
Descriptionxviii, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN0-8147-5541-0 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN0-8147-5542-9 (paperbound : alk. paper)
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted NoteContents: "An aggressive Christian enterprise" : the Baltimore YMCA's journey to institutional credibility and religious legitimacy, 1852-1882 / Jessica Elfenbein -- Manhood factories : architecture, business, and the evolving urban role of the YMCA, 1865-1925 / Paula Lupkin -- Contested spaces : the YMCA and workingmen on the railroads, 1877-1917 / Thomas Winter -- Negotiating white womanhood : the Cincinnati YWCA and white wage-earning women, 1918-1929 / Sarah Heath -- Cultural pluralism in immigrant education : the YWCA's international institutes, 1910-1940 / Raymond A. Mohl -- True manhood : the YMCA and racial advancement, 1890-1930 / Nina Mjagkij -- Struggle among saints : African American women and the YWCA, 1870-1920 / Adrienne Lash Jones -- To be separate or one : the issue of race in the history of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland YWCAs, 1920-1946 / Margaret Spratt -- "The price of integration" : the story of the Charlotte YWCA in the 1960s / Michelle Busby -- From character to body building : the YMCA and the suburban metropolis, 1950-1980 / Clifford Putney -- Taking the young stranger by the hand : homosexual cruising at the YMCA, 1890-1980 / John D. Wrathall --"Without documents no history" : sources and strategies for researching the YWCA / Nancy Robertson with Elizabeth Norris.
SubjectsYMCA of the USA -- History.
Young Men's Christian associations -- Membership.
Young Men's Christian associations -- United States -- History.
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. -- History.
Young Women's Christian associations -- United States -- History.
Other AuthorsMjagkij, Nina, 1961-
Spratt, Margaret, 1955-
LC Card Number97-4666
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: BV 1040 M534
mq55072: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
[Record 36689]