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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786678103321

Titolo

Women in Pacific Northwest history / / edited by Karen J. Blair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, Washington ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-295-80580-3

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

305.4/09795

Soggetti

Women - Northwest, Pacific - History - 19th century

Women - Northwest, Pacific - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A McClellan book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part 1 - New Directions for Research""; ""Tied To Other Lives: Women in Pacific Northwest History - Susan Armitage""; ""Part 2 - Politics and Law""; ""Of Women's Rights and Freedom: Abigail Scott Duniway - Ruth Barnes Moynihan""; ""The Fight for Woman Suffrage and the Oregon Press - Lauren Kessler""; """His Face Is Weak and Sensual": Portland and the Whipping Post Law - David Peterson Del Mar""; ""Part 3 - Work""; ""Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women's Right to Work, 1914-1920 - Maurine Weiner Greenwald""

""Bertha Knight Landes: The Woman Who Was Mayor - Doris H. Pieroth""""The Job He Left Behind: Women in the Shipyards During World War II - Karen Beck Skold""; ""Part 4 - Race and Ethnicity""; ""The Role of Native Women in the Creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1830 - Sylvia Van Kirk""; ""A Chicana in Northern Aztlán: An Oral History of Dora Sánchez Treviño - Jerry García""; ""Gender Equality on the Colville Indian Reservation in Traditional and Contemporary Contexts - Lillian A. Ackerman""; ""Part 5 - The Arts""

""Quilts in the Lives of Women Who Migrated to the Northwest, 1850-1990: A Visual Record - Mary Bywater Cross""""The Seattle Ladies Musical Club,1890-1930 - Karen J. Blair""; ""Tsugiki, a Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington State - Gail M.



Nomura""; ""Suggestions for Further Reading""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""