Women in Pacific Northwest History (eBook, ePUB)

Revised Edition
Redaktion: Blair, Karen J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of Karen Blair's popular anthology originally published in 1989 includes thirteen essays, eight of which are new. Together they suggest the wide spectrum of women's experiences that make up a vital part of Northwest history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295805801
• Artikelnr.: 44784966

Autorenporträt

Edited by Karen J. Blair

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Part 1. New Directions for Research
1. Tied to Other Lives: Women in Pacific Northwest History, Susan Armitage
Part 2. Politics and Law
2. Of Women's Rights and Freedom: Abigail Scott Duniway, Ruth Barnes
Moynihan
3. The Fight for Woman Suffrage and the Oregon Press, Lauren Kessler
4. "His Face is Weak and Sensual": Portland and the Whipping Post Law,
David Peterson del Mar
Part 3. Work
5. Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on
Married Women's Right to Work, 1914-1920, Maurine Weiner Greenwald
6. Bertha Knight Landes: The Woman Who Was Mayor, Doris H. Pieroth
7. The Job He Left Behind: Women in the Shipyards During World War II,
Karen Beck Skold
Part 4. Race and Ethnicity
8. The Role of Native Women in the Creation of Fur Trade Society in Western
Canada, 1670-1830, Sylvia Van Kirk
9. A Chicana in Northern Aztlan: Dora Sanchez Trevino, Jerry Garcia
10. Gender Equality in the Colville Indian Reservation in Traditional and
Contemporary Contexts, Lillian A. Ackerman
Part 5. The Arts
11. Quilts in the Lives of Women Who Migrated to the Northwest, 1850-1990:
A Visual Record Bywater, Mary Bywater Cross
12. The Seattle Ladies Musical Club, 1890-1930, Karen J. Blair
13. Tsugiki, a Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in
Washington State, Gail M. Nomura
Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index