Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Colorado Club Woman
Author: Representative Women of Colorado
Author: James Alexander SemplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
History of the Colorado Woman's Service Club
Author: Business Woman's Club of Colorado Springs
Author: Business Woman's Club of Colorado SpringsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Colorado Women
Author: Gail M. BeatonPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607322072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals. The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time. Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.
History and Chronology Colorado State Federation of Woman's Clubs
Author: Colorado State Federation of Women's ClubsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The Club Woman
Author: Colorado Women in World War II
Author: Gail M. BeatonPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646420330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that its long arm would reach into the lives of all Americans. And reach it did. Colorado women from every corner of the state enlisted in the military, joined the workforce, and volunteered on the home front. As military women, they served as nurses and in hundreds of noncombat positions. In defense plants they riveted steel, made bullets, inspected bombs, operated cranes, and stored projectiles. They hosted USO canteens, nursed in civilian hospitals, donated blood, drove Red Cross vehicles, and led scrap drives; and they processed hundreds of thousands of forms and reports. Whether or not they worked outside the home, they wholeheartedly participated in a kaleidoscope of activities to support the war effort. In Colorado Women in World War II Gail M. Beaton interweaves nearly eighty oral histories—including interviews, historical studies, newspaper accounts, and organizational records—and historical photographs (many from the interviewees themselves) to shed light on women’s participation in the war, exploring the dangers and triumphs they felt, the nature of their work, and the lasting ways in which the war influenced their lives. Beaton offers a new perspective on World War II—views from field hospitals, small steel companies, ammunition plants, college classrooms, and sugar beet fields—giving a rare look at how the war profoundly transformed the women of this state and will be a compelling new resource for readers, scholars, and students interested in Colorado history and women’s roles in World War II.
Colorado Mountain Women
Author: Sherie SchmauderPublisher:
ISBN: 9781890437800
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vividly portrays the daily lives of several women and how they battled extreme weather conditions, isolation that could drive a person mad, disease that often took their children from them, poverty and starvation, and primitive living conditions. All the stories are fictional, but all are based on women's actual experiences. The West could not have progressed and prospered without the strength, courage, and determination of such women.
Business and Professional Women's Club of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Author: Business and Professional Women's Club (Colorado Springs, Colo.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businesswomen
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contains the program and presenter for each month of the year and lists officers and members.