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Feminist frontiers : women who shaped the Midwest / edited by Yvonne J. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women political activists--Middle West--Biography.
- Women political activists.
- Women civil rights workers--Middle West--Biography.
- Women civil rights workers.
- Women social reformers--Middle West--Biography.
- Women social reformers.
- Feminists--Middle West--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Women--Middle West--Biography.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity--Middle West--History.
- Sex role--Middle West--History.
- Sex role.
- Middle West--Biography.
- Middle West.
- Middle West--Social conditions.
- Middle West--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women's stories are noticeably absent from the master narrative of the Populist and Progressive movements, where their struggle for civil rights was more evident in the Midwest than any other region in the country. This collection of eleven biographical essays highlights women leaders in the Midwest who challenged gender, racial, class, and ethnic boundaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only were these midwestern women powerful orators and active leaders, they were influential in shaping the culture in their communities.
- Contents:
- Frances Dana Gage : "turning the world upside down" / Jeffrey E. Smith
- Mary Sibley : genteel reformer / Mary Ellen Rowe
- Amanda Berry Smith : pioneer for African American child care / Marcia Chatelaine
- Linda Warfel Slaughter : cultural education in North Dakota / Barbara Handy-Marchello
- Marietta Bones : personality and politics in the South Dakota suffrage movement / Nancy Tystad Koupal
- Carry Nation : the Kansas cyclone / Patricia Ashman
- Alice French : Indiana war mothers : from World War I "kitchen soldiers" to postwar immigrant reformers / Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis
- Efrieda von Rohr Sauer : a life reinterpreted / Carol Piper Heming
- Esther Twente : community builder / Maureen Wilt
- Genora Dollinger : a revolutionary from Michigan / Carlton Jackson
- Harriett Friedman Woods : from Midwest politics to national power / Yvonne J. Johnson and Shari Bax.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-935503-77-4
- OCLC:
- 794413320
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