| Contents | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 4.4

Vol. 4, No. 4

October 2005


Staff

Contributors

Editor's Note	329

Essays

"Not Designed Merely to Heal": Women Reformers and the Emergence of Children's Hospitals
David Sloane	331

"Our Lady Sportsmen": Gender, Class, and Conservation in Sport Hunting Magazines, 1873–1920
Andrea L. Smalley	355

Polite Gaiety: Cultural Hierarchy and Musical Comedy, 1893–1904
Michael Newbury	381

Book Reviews

Revisiting the Tragic Era and the Nadir: Interrogating Individual and Collective African-American Lives in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
reviewed by Stephen G. Hall	409

Public Health and Plague in Paradise
reviewed by Susan L. Smith	415


Acknowledgements	419

[On the back cover: Christmas Eve, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1912. From Chicago Daily News, December 24, 1912. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.]

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