| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871–1933. By Maureen A. Flanagan. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xvi, 319 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-09539-6.)

In this well-researched book with a cast of thousands, Maureen A. Flanagan accomplishes several important historiographical tasks relevant not just to Chicago history but to a larger understanding of the wellsprings of Progressive reform campaigns. First, Flanagan creates a persuasive picture of distinctive Progressive "visions of the good city," in her own title phrase, visions whose elements of course predate the Progressive Era. One of these visions is of the city as a picture of efficient management of human and engineered resources. The other is of the city as a place that might be better managed for the general good. Second, she argues strongly and, again, persuasively that these visions were gender-linked in far more than accidental ways: that it is possible to demonstrate that the first was largely a men's vision, while the second, of city administration as the steward of the general welfare, belonged to women, even across social class, religious, and racial backgrounds.

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