Feminist frontiers and gendered negotiations
Subtitle: women who shaped the Midwest
By: edited by Yvonne Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Yvonne, 1945-
Publisher: Truman State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kirksville, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781935503026
Subjects: Women political activists -- Middle West -- Biography; Women civil rights workers -- Middle West -- Biography; Women social reformers -- Middle West -- Biography; Feminists -- Middle West -- Biography; Women -- Middle West -- Biography; Women in politics -- Middle West -- History; Sex role -- Middle West -- History; Middle West -- Biography; Middle West -- Social conditions; Middle West -- Politics and government
Genres: Biography
Description: "Women's stories are noticeably absent from the master narrative of Populist and Progressive movements, where their struggle for civil rights was more evident in the Midwest than any other region in the country. This collection of eleven biographical essays highlights women leaders in the Midwest who challenged gender, racial, class, and ethnic boundaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only were these midwestern women powerful orators and active leaders, they were influential in shaping the culture in their communities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Frances Dana Gage : "turning the world upside down" / Jeffrey E. Smith; title: Mary Sibley : genteel reformer / Mary Ellen Rowe; title: Amanda Berry Smith : pioneer for African-American child care / Marcia Chatelaine; title: Linda Warfel Slaughter : cultural education in North Dakota / Barbara Handy-Marcello; title: Marietta Bones : personality and politics in the South Dakota suffrage movement / Nancy Tystad Koupal; title: Carry Nation : the Kansas cyclone / Patricia Ashman; title: Alice French : Indiana war mothers : from World War I "kitchen soldiers" to postwar immigrant reformers / Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis; title: Efrieda von Rohr : in search of a life / Carol Piper Heming; title: Esther Twente : community builder / Maureen Wilt; title: Genora Dollinger : a revolutionary from the Michigan Midwest / Carlton Jackson; title: Harriett Woods : from Midwest politics to national power / Yvonne J. Johnson and Shari Bax.