Call her a citizen : progressive-era activist and educator Anna Pennybacker / Kelley M. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Kelley M. (Kelley Marie), 1964-

Series:

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 114.

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 114

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennybacker, Anna J. Hardwicke, 1861-1938.

Pennybacker, Anna J. Hardwicke.

Texas Federation of Women's Clubs--History.

Texas Federation of Women's Clubs.

General Federation of Women's Clubs--History.

General Federation of Women's Clubs.

Educators--Texas--Biography.

Educators.

Women educators--Texas--Biography.

Women educators.

Social reformers--Texas--Biography.

Social reformers.

Women social reformers--Texas--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Texas--History--1846-1950.

Texas.

United States--History--1913-1921.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an era when the dominant ideology divided the world into separate public and private spheres and relegated women to the private, Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker ardently promoted progressive causes including public education, women's suffrage, social reform, and the League of Nations. A Texas educator, clubwoman, writer, lecturer, and social and political activist whose influence in the early twentieth century extended nationwide, Pennybacker wrote "A New History of Texas," which was the state-adopted textbook for Texas history from 1898-1913 and remained in classroom use until the 1940s. She was also active in the burgeoning women's club movement and served as president of both the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs and the General Federation of Women's Clubs (1912-14). The latter position was considered by some to be the most powerful position for a woman in America at that time. Kelley King has mined the fifty-two linear feet of Pennybacker archives at the University of Texas Center for American History to reconstruct the "hidden history" of a feminist's life and work. There, she uncovered an impressive record of advocacy, interlaced with a moderate style and some old-fashioned biases. King's work offers insight into the personal and political choices Pennybacker made and the effects these choices had in her life and on the American culture at large.

Contents:

1861-1880: early life and career

1880-1900: called to teach

Pennybacker's history of Texas

The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs

The most powerful position a woman could hold

1916-1920: World War and women's suffrage

Promoting ideals of citizenship

A citizen of the nation and the world.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60344-330-4

OCLC:

680622462