Author: Phebe Ann HanafordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Consists of chapters by subject, including women reformers, inventors, lawyers etc.
Daughters of America
Author: Phebe Ann HanafordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Consists of chapters by subject, including women reformers, inventors, lawyers etc.
Mothers and Daughters in Nineteenth-century America
Author: Nancy M. TheriotPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813131788
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Daughters of America
Author: Phebe Ann HanafordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA, OR WOMEN OF THE CENTURY
Author: PHEBE A. HANAFORDPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033584873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century
Author: Simon WendtPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813057612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women’s organizations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR’s efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation’s past were entangled with and strengthened the nation’s racial and gender boundaries. Taking a close look at the DAR’s mission of bolstering national loyalty, Wendt reveals paradoxes and ambiguities in its activism. While the Daughters engaged in patriotic actions long believed to be the domain of men and challenged male-centered accounts of US nation-building, their tales about the past reinforced traditional notions of femininity and masculinity, reflecting a belief that any challenge to these conventions would jeopardize the country’s stability. Similarly, they frequently voiced support for inclusive civic nationalism but deliberately shaped historical memory to consolidate white supremacy. Using archival sources from across the country, Wendt focuses on the DAR’s most visible work after its founding in 1890—its commemorations of the American Revolution, western expansion, and Native Americans. He also explores the organization’s post–World War II history, a time that saw major challenges to its conservative vision of America’s “imagined community.” This book sheds new light on the remarkable agency and cultural authority of conservative white women in the twentieth century.
Daughters of America
Author: Phebe Ann HanafordPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337506162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Daughters of the State
Author: Barbara M. BrenzelPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262521048
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A rich and fascinating study of education, social reform, and women's history,Daughters of the State explores the lives of young girls who came to the State Industrial School forGirls in Lancaster, Massachusetts during its first fifty years.Brenzel skillfully integrates thecomplex lines of nineteenth-century social thought and policies formed around issues of work, sexroles, schooling, and sexuality that have carried through to this century. In the school'shandwritten case histories and legislative reports, she uncovers institutional mores and biasestoward the young and the poor and especially toward women. Brenzel also reveals the plight of theparents who were forced by their circumstances to condemn their children to such institutions in thehope of improving their futures.Barbara Brenzel is Assistant Professor of Education and DepartmentChair at Wellesley College. Daughters of the State is an MIT-Harvard joint Center for Urban StudiesBook.
America's Daughters
Author: Judith HeadPublisher: Perspective Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A history of women in the United States from the seventeenth century to modern times, discussing the roles they have played in society and historical events and focusing on individuals from Pocahontas to Sandra Day O'Connor.
Memory's Daughters
Author: Susan StabilePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501729934
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia—Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright—wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality, they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley. In this stunningly original and heavily illustrated book, Susan M. Stabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience—a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era. Drawing equally on material culture and literary history, Stabile discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions, including desks, writing paraphernalia, mirrors, miniatures, beds, and coffins. As she reconstructs the poetics of memory that informed the women's lives and structured their manuscripts, Stabile focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning. Empirically rich and nuanced in its readings of different kinds of artifacts, this engaging work tells of the erasure of the women's lives from the national memory as the feminine aesthetic of scribal publication was overshadowed by the proliferating print culture of late eighteenth-century America.
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Author: Janice P. NimuraPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life." —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan—a land grown foreign to them—determined to revolutionize women’s education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment.