Selling Women S History

Author : Emily Westkaemper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813576350

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Selling Women's History by Emily Westkaemper Pdf

Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture. Selling Women’s History reveals how, from the 1900s to the 1970s, popular culture helped teach Americans about the accomplishments of their foremothers, promoting an awareness of women’s wide-ranging capabilities. On one hand, Emily Westkaemper examines how this was a marketing ploy, as Madison Avenue co-opted women’s history to sell everything from Betsy Ross Red lipstick to Virginia Slims cigarettes. But she also shows how pioneering adwomen and female historians used consumer culture to publicize histories that were ignored elsewhere. Their feminist work challenged sexist assumptions about women’s subordinate roles. Assessing a dazzling array of media, including soap operas, advertisements, films, magazines, calendars, and greeting cards, Selling Women’s History offers a new perspective on how early- and mid-twentieth-century women saw themselves. Rather than presuming a drought of female agency between the first and second waves of American feminism, it reveals the subtle messages about women’s empowerment that flooded the marketplace.

Author : Amy Stanley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520270909

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Selling Women by Amy Stanley Pdf

“At last, a study that goes far beyond the urban-centered discourse with which we are already familiar to place the trafficking of women in a solid historical and comparative context. Through a carefully reasoned and balanced analysis of diverse sources, Stanley shows how prostitution practices varied. This book will set the standard for studies of prostitution in early modern Japan for decades to come.” -Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine “Selling Women is a remarkable achievement. With her gaze fixed firmly on the young women whose labor sustained prostitution as an industry, Amy Stanley traces shifts in the moral economy of the sex trade over the course of the Tokugawa era, and unveils the ironic consequences of economic growth and social change. This meticulously researched, wonderfully written book is a major contribution to the literature on gender and society in Japan.” -David L. Howell, Harvard University

Author : Emily Westkaemper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813576343

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Selling Women's History by Emily Westkaemper Pdf

Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture. Selling Women’s History reveals how, from the 1900s to the 1970s, popular culture helped teach Americans about the accomplishments of their foremothers, promoting an awareness of women’s wide-ranging capabilities. On one hand, Emily Westkaemper examines how this was a marketing ploy, as Madison Avenue co-opted women’s history to sell everything from Betsy Ross Red lipstick to Virginia Slims cigarettes. But she also shows how pioneering adwomen and female historians used consumer culture to publicize histories that were ignored elsewhere. Their feminist work challenged sexist assumptions about women’s subordinate roles. Assessing a dazzling array of media, including soap operas, advertisements, films, magazines, calendars, and greeting cards, Selling Women’s History offers a new perspective on how early- and mid-twentieth-century women saw themselves. Rather than presuming a drought of female agency between the first and second waves of American feminism, it reveals the subtle messages about women’s empowerment that flooded the marketplace.

Author : Tonya Bolden
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780517709368

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33 Things Every Girl Should Know by Tonya Bolden Pdf

Extraordinary strong women lend their diverse voices to this collection of stories, songs, poems, comics, and essays. What if every adolescent girl could feel hopeful, empowered, and excited about making the transition from girlhood to womanhood? Dealing with subjects like popularity, success, talking to boys, speaking your mind, and body image, this book offers practical help and inspiration. 33 Things Every Girl Should Know is an empowering and inspirational gift that every girl will want to own, to share with friends, and to use as a springboard to self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and self-esteem. Contributors include: Natalie Merchant. Sigourney Weaver. Tabitha Soren. Wendy Wasserstein. Rebecca Lobo. Lauren Hutton. Anita Roddick. Lynda Barry.

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313288036

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Chronology of Women's History by Kirstin Olsen Pdf

Entries are arranged by year or group of years in a format of ten subject categories.

Author : Wilma Mankiller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618001824

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The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History by Wilma Mankiller Pdf

Covers issues and events in women's history that were previously unpublished, misplaced, or forgotten, and provides new perspectives on each event.

Author : Nancy Janovicek,Carmen Nielson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442629738

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Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History by Nancy Janovicek,Carmen Nielson Pdf

Inspired by the question of "what’s next?" in the field of Canadian women’s and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conversation among established and emerging scholars who share a commitment to understanding the past from intersectional feminist perspectives. It includes original essays on Quebecois, Indigenous, Black, and immigrant women’s histories and tackles such diverse topics as colonialism, religion, labour, warfare, sexuality, and reproductive labour and justice. Intended as a regenerative retrospective of a critically important field, this collection both engages analytically with the current state of women’s and gender historiography in Canada and draws on its rich past to generate new knowledge and areas for inquiry.

Author : Roberta Seelinger Trites
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496813817

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Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature by Roberta Seelinger Trites Pdf

Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing her previous work in the linguistic turn, Trites employs methodologies from the material turn to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. She interrogates how material feminism can expand our understanding of maturation and gender—especially girlhood—as represented in narratives for preadolescents and adolescents. Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature applies principles behind material feminisms, such as ecofeminism, intersectionality, and the ethics of care, to analyze important feminist thinking that permeates twenty-first-century publishing for youth. The structure moves from examinations of the individual to examinations of the individual in social, environmental, and interpersonal contexts. The book deploys ecofeminism and the posthuman to investigate how embodied individuals interact with the environment and via the extension of feministic ethics how people interact with each other romantically and sexually. Throughout the book, Trites explores issues of identity, gender, race, class, age, and sexuality in a wide range of literature for young readers, such as Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses, Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park. She demonstrates how shifting cultural perceptions of feminism affect what is happening both in publishing for the young and in the academic study of literature for children and adolescents.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812976397

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Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands’ conquests–and in turn supported the Raj, often behind the scenes and out of the history books. Enduring heartbreaking separations from their families, these women had no choice but to adapt to their strange new home, where they were treated with incredible deference by the natives but found little that was familiar. The women of the Raj learned to cope with the harsh Indian climate and ward off endemic diseases; they were forced to make their own entertainment–through games, balls, and theatrics–and quickly learned to abide by the deeply ingrained Anglo-Indian love of hierarchy. Weaving interviews, letters, and memoirs with a stunning selection of illustrations, MacMillan presents a vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers, and wives of the men at the center of a daring imperialist experiment–and reveals India in all its richness and vitality. “A marvellous book . . . [Women of the Raj] successfully [re-creates] a vanished world that continues to hold a fascination long after the sun has set on the British empire.” –The Globe and Mail “MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” –The Daily Telegraph “MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “Well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.” –Evening Standard

Author : S. J. Kleinberg
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 085496682X

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Retrieving Women's History by S. J. Kleinberg Pdf

Edited by S. Jay Kleinberg, this volume investigates the role played by women in ancient, more recent and contemporary history and demonstrates that taking into account the activities of women radically alters the perspectives of historians.

Author : S. J. Kleinberg,Eileen Boris,Vicki Ruíz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813541815

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The Practice of U.S. Women's History by S. J. Kleinberg,Eileen Boris,Vicki Ruíz Pdf

In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions of gender shaped government officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights.

Author : Angela M. Howard,Frances M. Kavenik
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002880723

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

This exceptional reference presents short articles on key people, events, and ideas that have shaped the history of women in the United States. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition features more than 100 new entries as well as, for the first time, photographs and artwork illustrating key concepts. Aimed at librarians, students, and teachers, the Handbook of American Women's History provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary view of a fascinating field of study. Arranged alphabetically, each entry is accompanied by a bibliography of primary and secondary sources to which interested readers can turn for more information. Editors Angela M. Howard and Frances M. Kavenik also provide an extensive subject/name index and end-of-entry cross-referencing to make the book an invaluable resource.

Author : Cheryl Johnson-Odim,Margaret Strobel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Women
ISBN : 0253307341

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Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History by Cheryl Johnson-Odim,Margaret Strobel Pdf

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0141192054

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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Pdf

When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393322576

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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Pdf

The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.