Searching for Mary Schaffer : women wilderness photography / Colleen Skidmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skidmore, Colleen, 1957- author.

Series:

Mountain cairns

Mountain Cairns: A series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schäffer, Mary T. S. (Mary Townsend Sharples), 1861-1939--Influence.

Schäffer, Mary T. S.

Women photographers--Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--Biography.

Women photographers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Schäffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Schäffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Schäffer."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781772123661

1772123668

9781772123647

1772123641