Teresa Bergman

The Commemoration of Women in the United States (eBook, ePUB)

Remembering Women in Public Space

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first. The analysis centers on six case examples of memorialization, and explores broad themes of cultural representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351339575
• Artikelnr.: 56889839

Autorenporträt

Teresa Bergman is Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, USA. Her research incorporates an interdisciplinary methodology that includes memory studies, rhetoric, documentary film theory, and critical/cultural studies. Her articles have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly and the Western Journal of Communication. Her book Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites (2013), won the 2013 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beyond Allegory: Actual Women Enter the Commemorative Landscape 1. Eleanor Roosevelt as Coda 2. The Portrait Monument
s Radical Message 3. The Politics of Optimism at the Women
s Rights National Historic Park 4. Women
s Patriotism in War: Vietnam Women's and Women in Military Service for America Memorials 5. Rosie the Riveter/World War II Homefront National Historic Park and the Social Construction of Power Conclusion: After Absence, the Complications of Presence