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Leave the dishes in the sink : adventures of an activist in conservative Utah / Alison Comish Thorne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorne, Alison Comish.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thorne, Alison Comish.
- College teachers--Utah--Biography.
- College teachers.
- Women college teachers--Utah--Biography.
- Women college teachers.
- Feminism and education--Utah.
- Feminism and education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 pages) : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2002.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Alison Thorne provides a small-town Utah perspective on the progressive social movements that in the mid to late twentieth century dramatically affected American society. A born activist, Thorne has fought for women's rights, educational reform in public schools and universities, the environment, peace, and the war on poverty. Her efforts have been all the more challenging because of the conservative social and cultural environment in which she has undertaken them. Yet, Thorne, who has deep personal and familial roots in the politically conservative and predominantly Mormon culture of Uta
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Growing Up in the 1920s; 2 The Great Depression and College Years; 3 Producing Children and Books: The 1940s; 4 Search for Values; 5 Conformity and Creativity; 6 Social Justice: The 1960s; 7 Feminist Straws in the Wind; 8 Activism in the 1970s; 9 The Women's Movement at Utah State University; 10 The Widening Reach of the Women's Movement; 11 The University, Women, and History; 12 Gathering Up Loose Ends; Appendix: The Life and Career of Wynne Thorne; Postscript: What Became of the Children?; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-273) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9786613266880
- 9781283266888
- 1283266881
- 9780874214628
- 0874214629
- OCLC:
- 476039920
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