Women Of Oklahoma 1890 1920

Author : Linda Williams Reese
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806129999

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Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920 by Linda Williams Reese Pdf

Linda Williams Reese tells of political activist Kate Barnard, who became Oklahoma's Commissioner of Charities and Corrections but fell from political grace, of Alice Robertson, who in 1920 abandoned the acceptable female endeavors of teaching and charity work to become a representative to the U.S Congress, and of Isabel Crawford, missionary to the Kiowas, who confided to her journal, "There are different kinds of hardships and those of the heart and spirit are harder to bear.".

Author : Linda Williams Reese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African American women
ISBN : OCLC:32727964

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Race, Class, and Culture by Linda Williams Reese Pdf

Author : Linda Williams Reese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0896728102

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Trail Sisters by Linda Williams Reese Pdf

"Traces the journey of African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations from arrival in Indian Territory to free-citizen status in 1890"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Terri M. Baker,Connie Oliver Henshaw
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806189994

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Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma by Terri M. Baker,Connie Oliver Henshaw Pdf

They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes with families, sometimes alone. But the women who first came to Oklahoma all had trials to face—and stories to tell. In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. From thousands of interviews conducted by the Work Projects Administration in 1936–37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived. Elegantly written, skillfully edited, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma reflects the everyday will and courage to survive of Oklahoma’s founding mothers. It conveys the violence of a frontier culture set in a landscape of stark beauty where death was always just a heartbeat away. A vital part of the state centennial, theirs is the story of real Oklahoma, writ large—and in a distinctly female hand.

Author : Davis D. Joyce
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 080613819X

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Alternative Oklahoma by Davis D. Joyce Pdf

Contrarian Sooner views of Oklahoma history

Author : Suzanne H. Schrems
Publisher : Horse Creek Pub
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Oklahoma
ISBN : 0972221727

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Who's Rocking the Cradle? by Suzanne H. Schrems Pdf

The political activities of Oklahoma Women from their involvement in organizing for the Socialist party in 1911 to their efforts to teach women good citizenship after state suffrage in 1918. The book details Oklahoma womens' involvement in political action groups in the early twentieth century that ran the spectrum from the socialist to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan.

Author : Gordon Moris Bakken,Brenda Farrington
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 076192356X

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Encyclopedia of Women in the American West by Gordon Moris Bakken,Brenda Farrington Pdf

American women have followed their "manifest destiny" since the 1800's, moving West to homestead, found businesses, author novels and write poetry, practice medicine and law, preach and perform missionary work, become educators, artists, judges, civil rights activists, and many other important roles spurred on by their strength, spirit, and determination.

Author : Julie A. Gallagher,Barbara Winslow
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252050749

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Reshaping Women's History by Julie A. Gallagher,Barbara Winslow Pdf

Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History presents autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists who persevered through poverty or abuse, medical malpractice or family disownment, civil war or genocide. As they illuminate their own unique circumstances, the authors also address issues all-too-familiar to women in the academy: financial instability, the need for mentors, explaining gaps in resumes caused by outside events, and coping with gendered family demands, biases, and expectations. Eye-opening and candid, Reshaping Women's History shows how adversity, and the triumph over it, enriches scholarship and spurs extraordinary efforts to affect social change. Contributors: Frances L. Buss, Nupur Chaudhuri, Lisa DiCaprio, Julie R. Enszer, Catherine Fosl, Midori Green, La Shonda Mims, Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie Solinger, Pamela Stewart, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, and Ann Marie Wilson.

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216071570

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Daily Life of Women in the Progressive Era by Kirstin Olsen Pdf

This book illustrates the social change that took place in the lives of women during the Progressive Era. The political and social change of the Progressive Era brought conflicts over labor, women's rights, consumerism, religion, sexuality, and many other aspects of American life. As Americans argued and fought over suffrage and political reform, vast changes were also taking place in women's professional, material, personal, recreational, and intellectual lives. In this installment of Greenwood's Daily Life through History series, award-winning author Kirstin Olsen brings to life the everyday experiences, priorities, and challenges of women in America's Progressive Era (ca. 1890–1920). From the barnstorming "bloomer girls" who showed America that women could play baseball to film star, tycoon, and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Pictures Mary Pickford, and from the highly skilled "Hello Girls"—telephone operators who helped win World War I—to the remarkable journalist and civil rights activist Ida Wells-Barnett, women led both famous and ordinary lives that were shaped by and helped to drive the dramatic social change taking place during the Progressive Era. All of this and more is described in this book through topical sections as well as stories and profiles that reveal to readers the daily lives of America's women who lived during the Progressive Era. Readers will benefit from Olsen's characteristically sharp eye for detail, power of description, and breadth of historical knowledge.

Author : Susan Kates
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780806150574

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Red Dirt Women by Susan Kates Pdf

For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled, gaunt-faced mother familiar from Dust Bowl photographs. In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one-dimensional characterizations by exploring—and celebrating—the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable. In essays both intensely personal and universal, Red Dirt Women reveals the author’s own heartaches and joys in becoming a parent through adoption, her love of regional treasures found in “junk” stores, and her deep appreciation of Miss Dorrie, her son’s unconventional preschool teacher. Through lively profiles, interviews, and sketches, we come to know pioneer queens from the Panhandle, rodeo riders, casino gamblers, roller-derby skaters, and the “Lady of Jade”—a former “boat person” from Vietnam who now owns a successful business in Oklahoma City. As she illuminates the lives of these memorable Oklahoma women, Kates traces her own journey to Oklahoma with clarity and insight. Born and raised in Ohio, she confesses an initial apprehension about her adopted home, admitting that she felt “vulnerable on the open lands.” Yet her original unease develops into a deep affection for the landscape, history, culture, and people of Oklahoma. The women we meet in Red Dirt Women are not politicians, governors’ wives, or celebrities—they are women of all ages and backgrounds who surround us every day and who are as diverse as Oklahoma itself.

Author : Barbara A. Seals Nevergold,Peggy Brooks-Bertram
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 097229774X

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Uncrowned Queens by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold,Peggy Brooks-Bertram Pdf

Fourth volume of biographies of African American women community leaders, focusing this time on Oklahoma.

Author : Sarah Eppler Janda,Patricia Loughlin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806178592

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This Land Is Herland by Sarah Eppler Janda,Patricia Loughlin Pdf

Since well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This Land Is Herland brings together the stories of thirteen women activists and explores their varied experiences from the territorial period to the present. Organized chronologically, the essays discuss Progressive reformer Kate Barnard, educator and civil rights leader Clara Luper, and Comanche leader and activist LaDonna Harris, as well as lesser-known individuals such as Cherokee historian and educator Rachel Caroline Eaton, entrepreneur and NAACP organizer California M. Taylor, and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) champion Wanda Jo Peltier Stapleton. Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, the collection connects Oklahoma women’s individual and collective endeavors to the larger themes of intersectionality, suffrage, politics, motherhood, and civil rights in the American West and the United States. The historians explore how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and political power shaped—and were shaped by—these women’s efforts to improve their local, state, and national communities. Underscoring the diversity of women’s experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.

Author : James E. Klein
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185828

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Grappling with Demon Rum by James E. Klein Pdf

Social classes collide over morality and social propriety in a brand-new state Well before the Volstead (or National Prohibition) Act of 1919, Oklahoma was dry. Oklahomans banned liquor at their state’s inception in 1907 and maintained the ban even after the repeal of national prohibition. In this book, James E. Klein examines the social and cultural conflicts that led Oklahomans to outlaw liquor and discusses the economic and political consequences of the ban. Grappling with Demon Rum identifies who favored and who opposed prohibition, showing that its proponents were largely middle-class citizens who disdained public drinking establishments and who sought respectability for a young state still considered a frontier society. Klein tells how the Oklahoma Anti-Saloon League orchestrated a dry campaign to raise moral standards, reduce crime, and improve the quality of life, twice convincing voters to support prohibition. Going beyond the usual evangelical-versus-ritualist, rural-versus-urban, and ethnocultural oppositions used by other historians to explain prohibition, Klein shows that Oklahoma’s immigrant and Catholic populations were too small to account for those voting against the measure—or for the large customer base that supported bootleggers. He points instead to the large number of working-class Oklahomans who patronized saloons, whether legal or not, and focuses on class conflict in early efforts to control alcohol. He also describes the trials of enforcement officers who worked to plug leaks in statewide and later national prohibition. A cultural and social history of liquor in early Oklahoma, Grappling with Demon Rum provides a fresh look at crusaders against vice at the regional level. In portraying this conflict between middle- and working-class definitions of social propriety, Klein provides new insight into forces at work throughout America during the Progressive Era.

Author : Stephen Daniels,Dydia DeLyser,J. Nicholas Entrikin,Doug Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136883552

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Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds by Stephen Daniels,Dydia DeLyser,J. Nicholas Entrikin,Doug Richardson Pdf

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of geography now permeate literature, philosophy and the arts. Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping and territory have become pervasive as conceptual frameworks and core metaphors in recent publications by humanities scholars and well-known writers. Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds contains over twenty-five contributions from leading scholars who have engaged this vital intellectual project from various perspectives, both inside and outside of the field of geography. The book is divided into four sections representing different modes of examining the depth and complexity of human meaning invested in maps, attached to landscapes, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life. The topics covered range widely and include interpretations of space, place, and landscape in literature and the visual arts, philosophical reflections on geographical knowledge, cultural imagination in scientific exploration and travel accounts, and expanded geographical understanding through digital and participatory methodologies. The clashing and blending of cultures caused by globalization and the new technologies that profoundly alter human environmental experience suggest new geographical narratives and representations that are explored here by a multidisciplinary group of authors. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and interested general readers seeking to understand the new synergies and creative interplay emerging from this broad intellectual engagement with meaning and geographic experience.

Author : Matheson Sue Matheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474444163

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Women in the Western by Matheson Sue Matheson Pdf

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.