Landmarks Of American Women S History

Author : Page Putnam Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780190286965

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Landmarks of American Women's History by Page Putnam Miller Pdf

Throughout history, women have often worked in informal ways and in modest conditions, frequently without monuments or grand examples of architecture preserved to commemorate their accomplishments. Landmarks of American Women's History describes the sites that represent a wide variety of women's experiences and accomplishments. As early as the fourteenth century, the women of New Mexico's Taos Pueblo lived equal lives of responsibility with men, even building most of the pueblo. Mary Chase Perry Stratton's Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, Michigan exemplifies women's contributions to the arts. Bryn Mawr College's M. Cary Thomas Library is tangible evidence of Thomas's drive to secure equal educational opportunities for women. The boardinghouse at Boot Cotton Mill in Lowell, Massachusetts provides a glimpse into the daily life of women in the industrial workforce. New York City's United Charities Building was- and still is- the headquarters of numerous reform organizations, many headed by women. In vivid sketches of eleven historic sites from across the country- in addition to numerous related location that act as supporting characters- Page Putnam Miller tells an engaging story of the accomplishments and the lasting influence of women on American history.

Author : Marion Tinling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313239847

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Women Remembered by Marion Tinling Pdf

This was obviously a labor of love for the author. Libraries large and small will find it a major ready-reference source on historic women in America. Library Journal

Author : Gail Lee Dubrow,Jennifer B. Goodman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801870526

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Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation by Gail Lee Dubrow,Jennifer B. Goodman Pdf

This essay collection draws upon work presented at three national conferences on women and historic preservation held at Bryn Mawr College in 1994, Arizona State University in 1997, and at Mount Vernon College in 2000.

Author : Polly Welts Kaufman,Katharine T. Corbett
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119469091

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Her Past Around Us by Polly Welts Kaufman,Katharine T. Corbett Pdf

Here is a guide to finding and presenting places that bring new visibility to women's lives and illuminate their goals. Some of these sites, such as city hall, are not generally associated with women; some are sites of long-forgotten women's activities; others, such as kitchens, usually assumed to be women's domain, reflect unexpected complexities of meaning. Eleven essays explore possibilities for using women's history and feminist analysis to look at familiar places through the lens of gender. Case studies become guides for interpreting or reinterpreting similar places. The text also contains lists of suggested sources pertaining to the subjects presented. The sites analyzed here include homes, gardens, factories, cemeteries, business districts, and even entire communities. They are places to learn about women running millinery shops, surviving in a new country by working in another woman's kitchen, stripping tobacco leaves in a factory in the South, laboring for slave owners, commemorating achievement, and mourning the dead. This collection of essays is designed to be useful to teachers and historical societies searching their own communities for new sites significant to the his

Author : Heather Huyck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442264182

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Doing Women's History in Public by Heather Huyck Pdf

A complete guide to interpreting women’s history. Women’s history is everywhere, not only in historic house museums named for women but also in homes named for famous men, museums of every conceivable kind, forts and battlefields, even ships, mines, and in buckets. Women’s history while present at every museum and historic site remains less fully interpreted in spite of decades of vibrant and expansive scholarship. Doing Women’s History in Public: A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites connects that scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them. With numerous examples that focus on all women and girls, it appropriately includes everyone, for women intersect with every other human group. This book provides arguments, sources (written, oral, and visual), and tools for finding women’s history, preserving it, and interpreting it with the public. It uses the framework of Significance (importance), Knowledge Base (research in primary, secondary, and tertiary sources), and Tangible Resources (the preserved physical embodiment of history in objects, architecture, and landscapes). Discusses traditional and technology-assisted interpretation and provides Tools to implement Doing Women’s History in Public. Using a hospitality model, museums and historic sites are the locales where we assemble, learn from each other, and take our insights into a more gender-shared future.

Author : Rebecca Kugel,Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803227795

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Native Women's History in Eastern North America Before 1900 by Rebecca Kugel,Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Pdf

How can we learn more about Native women?s lives in North America in earlier centuries? This question is answered by this landmark anthology, an essential guide to the significance, experiences, and histories of Native women. Sixteen classic essays?plus new commentary?many by the original authors?describe a broad range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women. The authors explain the use of letters and diaries, memoirs and autobiographies, newspaper accounts and ethnographies, census data and legal documents. This collection offers guidelines for extracting valuable information from such diverse sources and assessing the significance of such variables as religious affiliation, changes in women?s power after colonization, connections between economics and gender, and representations (and misrepresentations) of Native women. ø Indispensable to anyone interested in exploring the role of gender in Native American history or in emphasizing Native women?s experiences within the context of women?s history, this anthology helps restore the historical reality of Native women and is essential to an understanding of North American history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : IND:30000098260270

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CRM by Anonim Pdf

Author : Page Putnam Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020836147

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Reclaiming the Past by Page Putnam Miller Pdf

"As editor Page Putnam Miller explains, "Historic structures can be a catalyst for studying and remembering the past." Reclaiming the Past integrates recent developments in women's history and historic preservation in order to illuminate the historic significance of many structures and sites associated with the lives of women in the United States. The homes of Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Zora Neale Hurston, Clara Barton, and Susan B. Anthony; Dumbarton Oaks, designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand; the Madame C. J. Walker Building in Indianapolis, home of the Walker Manufacturing Company; Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, New York, site of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention; the Shirtwaist Triangle Factory; Hull House: these represent only a sampling of the variety of landmarks and resources examined here." "In an introductory chapter, Page Putnam Miller outlines the urgent task of identifying and preserving these historic sites. The contributors then focus on seven arenas of activity: architecture, arts, community, education, politics, religion, and work. We discover that as activists, preservationists, designers, and architects, women have long been involved in historic preservation, as well as in the thoughtful design of domestic space - the home itself. As artists and writers, women often interpreted their household and immediate surroundings. Women have also left their mark on material culture through community activism, religious and educational activity, and work." "Less than 5 percent of national parks, national historic landmarks, and state historic sites commemorate women's life and activity in the United States. The use of historic structures to reconstruct and understand their accomplishments has garnered relatively little attention. This volume is an effort to stimulate the recovery and use of these resources - to grasp the spirit and the passions that animate women's history." "The contributors are Gail Lee Dubrow, Joan Hoff, Barbara J. Howe, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Barbara Melosh, Jean R. Soderlund, and Lynn Y. Weiner."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield,Joan Marie Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820343815

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South Carolina Women by Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield,Joan Marie Johnson Pdf

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some striking revelations emerge from these biographical portraits—in particular, the breadth of interracial cooperation between women in the decades preceding the civil rights movement and ways that women carved out diverse career opportunities, sometimes by breaking down formidable occupational barriers. Some women in the volume proceeded cautiously, working within the norms of their day to promote reform even as traditional ideas about race and gender held powerful sway. Others spoke out more directly and forcefully and demanded change. Most of the women featured in these essays were leaders within their respective communities and the state. Many of them, such as Wil Lou Gray, Hilla Sheriff, and Ruby Forsythe, dedicated themselves to improving the quality of education and health care for South Carolinians. Septima Clark, Alice Spearman Wright, Modjeska Simkins, and many others sought to improve conditions and obtain social justice for African Americans. Others, including Victoria Eslinger and Tootsie Holland, were devoted to the cause of women’s rights. Louise Smith, Mary Elizabeth Massey, and Mary Blackwell Butler entered traditionally male-dominated fields, while Polly Woodham and Mary Jane Manigault created their own small businesses. A few, including Mary Gordon Ellis, Dolly Hamby, and Harriet Keyserling exercised political influence. Familiar figures like Jean Toal, current chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, are included, but readers also learn about lesser-known women such as Julia and Alice Delk, sisters employed in the Charleston Naval Yard during World War II.

Author : Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9781438110332

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Encyclopedia of Women's History in America by Kathryn Cullen-DuPont Pdf

A collection of biographical information about outstanding women in American history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : UCR:31210017997246

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Women's Rights National History Trail Feasibility Study by Anonim Pdf

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052978031

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U.S. Women's History by Linda Gordon Pdf

The study and teaching of history unexpectedly emerged as the subject of intense public debate.

Author : Angela Howard,Frances M. Kavenik
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001742329

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Handbook of American Women's History by Angela Howard,Frances M. Kavenik Pdf

An impressive encyclopedia of a wide range of topics: people, events, organizations, movements, and ideas. The signed articles average about half a page, are thoroughly cross-referenced, and refer as well to book-length treatments of the subject. Examples of entries are Georgia O'Keefe, menstrual cycle, European influences, Benjamin Rusk, Salem witch trials, Angela Davis, Bette Davis, Radcliffe College, Montana State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, cigar makers, aviation, slavery, Populist Party, Marine Corps, and Mary Baker Eddy. An excellent quick reference and initial bibliography for students, researchers, and journalists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : CORNELL:31924058995238

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Trends by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pamela S. Nadell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814758076

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American Jewish Women's History by Pamela S. Nadell Pdf

“It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,“Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new world. In the centuries that followed, as that community swelled to several millions, women came to occupy diverse and changing roles. American Jewish Women’s History, an anthology covering colonial times to the present, illuminates that historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbors. It ranges from Rebecca Gratz’s development of the Jewish Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1838 to protest the rising prices of kosher meat at the turn of the century, to the shaping of southern Jewish women's cultural identity through food. There is currently no other reader conveying the breadth of the historical experiences of American Jewish women available. The reader is divided into four sections complete with detailed introductions. The contributors include: Joyce Antler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Alice Kessler-Harris, Paula E. Hyman, Riv-Ellen Prell, and Jonathan D. Sarna.