Wrangling Women

Author : Kristin M. McAndrews
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874176872

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Wrangling Women by Kristin M. McAndrews Pdf

The small Methow Valley community of Winthrop, Washington, has reinvented itself as a western-theme town. Winthrop women function as trail guides, wranglers, horse trainers, packers, and ranchers and work in an environment where gender stereotypes must be carefully preserved for the sake of the tourist-based economy. Yet these women often subvert and undermine traditional gender images with humor. How the wrangling women of Winthrop accomplish this challenging balancing act is a fascinating study of women’s manipulation of language and gender stereotypes in the modern West. Kristin McAndrews states that she “began to suspect that the reason there was so little scholarship on women’s humor was that male researchers didn’t understand it, or perhaps they didn’t recognize it.” To examine the humor of one group of women, she conducted interviews with Winthrop’s female wranglers, collecting stories about their lives as workers and as members of their community. For all these women, professional success depends on courage, ingenuity, a sense of humor, and a facility with language—as well as on an ability to perform within the traditional gender stereotypes evoked by their town’s Wild west image.

Author : Jacqueline Kazil,Katharine Jarmul
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491948774

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Data Wrangling with Python by Jacqueline Kazil,Katharine Jarmul Pdf

How do you take your data analysis skills beyond Excel to the next level? By learning just enough Python to get stuff done. This hands-on guide shows non-programmers like you how to process information that’s initially too messy or difficult to access. You don't need to know a thing about the Python programming language to get started. Through various step-by-step exercises, you’ll learn how to acquire, clean, analyze, and present data efficiently. You’ll also discover how to automate your data process, schedule file- editing and clean-up tasks, process larger datasets, and create compelling stories with data you obtain. Quickly learn basic Python syntax, data types, and language concepts Work with both machine-readable and human-consumable data Scrape websites and APIs to find a bounty of useful information Clean and format data to eliminate duplicates and errors in your datasets Learn when to standardize data and when to test and script data cleanup Explore and analyze your datasets with new Python libraries and techniques Use Python solutions to automate your entire data-wrangling process

Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555081497

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Lloyd's Encyclopædic dictionary by Robert Hunter Pdf

Author : Sharon Hartman Strom
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1566398193

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Political Woman by Sharon Hartman Strom Pdf

Countering traditional narratives that place men at the centre of political thinking and history, this text tells the life story of Florence Hope Luscomb, a political activist who's life spanned nearly all of the 20th century.

Author : Dennis W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135837570

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The Laws That Shaped America by Dennis W. Johnson Pdf

For better and sometimes for worse, Congress is a reflection of the aspirations, wants, and priorities of the American people. It reflects the kaleidoscope of special interests and unselfish service to others, of favors sought and sacrifices made. During each two-year session of Congress, thousands of pieces of legislation are proposed, many hundreds are given serious consideration, but far fewer are eventually enacted into law. Most enactments have limited impact, affect few, and are quietly forgotten in the flow of legislative activity. However, a small number of laws have risen to the level of historical consequence. These are the laws that have shaped America, and they are the subject of this book. Which pieces of legislation were the most significant for the development of the nation? Which have had an immediate or lasting impact on our society? Which laws so affected us that we could not imagine how our lives would be without them? Dennis W. Johnson vividly portrays the story of fifteen major laws enacted over the course of two centuries of American democracy. For each law, he examines the forces and circumstances that led to its enactment--the power struggles between rival interests, the competition between lawmakers and the administration, the compromises and principled stands, and the impact of the legislation and its place in American history.

Author : Sandra K. Schackel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700617807

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Working the Land by Sandra K. Schackel Pdf

Helen Tiegs didn't take to driving a tractor when she became a farmer's wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation. Lila Hill taught piano, then ultimately took a job off the farm to augment the family income during a period of rising costs. From Montana's cattle pastures to New Mexico's sagebrush mesas, women on today's ranches and farms have played a crucial role in a way of life that is slowly disappearing from the western landscape. Recalling her own family-farm ties, Sandra Schackel set out to learn how these women's lives have changed over the second half of the twentieth century. In Working the Land, she collects oral histories from more than forty women—in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas—recalling their experiences as ranchers and farmers in a modernizing West. Through this diverse group of women—white and Hispanic, rich and poor, ranging in age from 24 to 83—we gain a new perspective on their ties to the land. Although western ranch and farm women have often been portrayed as secondary figures who devoted themselves to housekeeping in support of their husbands' labors, Schackel's interviews reveal that these women have had a much more active role in defining what we know as the modern American West. As Schackel listened to their stories, she found several currents running through their recollections, such as the satisfaction found in living the rural lifestyle and the flexibility of gender roles. She also learned how resourceful women developed new ways to make their farms work—by including tourism, summer camps, and bed-and-breakfast operations—and how many have become activists for land-based issues. And while some like Lila made the difficult decision to work off the farm, such sacrifices have enabled families to hold onto their beloved land. Rich with memory and insight into what makes America's family farms and ranches tick, Working the Land provides a deeper understanding of the West's development over the last fifty years along with new perspectives on shifting attitudes toward women in the workforce. It is both a long-overdue documentation of the lives of hard-working farm women and a celebration of their contributions to a truly American way of life.

Author : Donnalyn Pompper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000299700

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Community Building and Early Public Relations by Donnalyn Pompper Pdf

From the start, women were central to a century of westward migration in the U.S. Community Building and Early Public Relations: Pioneer Women’s Role on and after the Oregon Trail offers a path forward in broadening PR's Caucasian/White male-gendered history in the U.S. Undergirded by humanist, communitarian, critical race theory, social constructionist perspectives, and a feminist communicology lens, this book analyzes U.S. pioneer women's lived experiences, drawing parallels with PR's most basic functions – relationship-building, networking, community building, boundary spanning, and advocacy. Using narrative analysis of diaries and reminiscences of women who travelled 2,000+ miles on the Oregon Trail in the mid-to-late 1800s, Pompper uncovers how these women filled roles of Caretaker/Advocate, Community Builder of Meeting Houses and Schools, served a Civilizing Function, offered Agency and Leadership, and provided Emotional Connection for Social Cohesion. Revealed also is an inevitable paradox as Caucasian/White pioneer women’s interactional qualities made them complicit as colonizers, forever altering indigenous peoples’ way of life. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate PR students, PR practitioners, and researchers of PR history and social identity intersectionalities. It encourages us to expand the definition of PR to include community building, and to revise linear timeline and evolutionary models to accommodate voices of women and people of color prior to the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:31951002024483J

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Universal Dictionary of the English Language by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Hunter,Charles Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCD:31175013940740

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Universal Dictionary of the English Language by Robert Hunter,Charles Morris Pdf

Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100036789

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The Encyclopædic Dictionary by Robert Hunter Pdf

Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030023614177

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The Encyclopaedic dictionary; a new, practical and exhaustive work of reference to all the words in the English language, with a full account of their origin, meaning, pronunciation, history and use by Robert Hunter Pdf

Author : John Egerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : English drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433081603411

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Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer by John Egerton Pdf

Author : Michael MacDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521231701

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Mystical Bedlam by Michael MacDonald Pdf

Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634. Napier's clients were drawn from every social rank and his therapeutic techniques included all the types of psychological healing practised at the time. His vivid descriptions of his clients' afflictions and complaints illuminate the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. This book goes beyond simply analysing mental disorder in a seventeenth-century astrological and medical practice. It reveals contemporary attitudes towards family life, describes the appeal of witchcraft and demonology to ordinary villagers, and explains the social and intellectual basis for the eclectic blend of scientific, magical, and religious therapies practised before the English Revolution. Not only is it a contribution to the history of medicine but also a survey of some of the darkest regions of the mental world of the English people of the seventeenth century.

Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39076001863187

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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary by Robert Hunter Pdf

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786566430

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The Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Tolstoy includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Tolstoy’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles