Notable women of Portland / Tracy J. Prince and Zadie Schaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prince, Tracy J., author.

Schaffer, Zadie, author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Oregon--Portland--Pictorial works.

Women.

Portland (Or.)--History--Pictorial works.

Portland (Or.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

The story of Portland, Oregon, like much of history, has usually been told with a focus on male leaders. This book offers a reframing of Portland's history. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier, including Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette; pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger; doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair; artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White; suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond, and Eva Emery Dye; lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard; Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee; politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter; and authors Frances Fuller Victor, Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Ursula Le Guin, and Jean Auel. These women, along with groups of women such as "Wendy the Welders, " made Portland what it is today.

Contents:

Introduction

Native American and pioneer women: pre-1851 to 1870s

Progressive era women: 1870s to 1920s

Women of World War I and World War II: 1914 to 1945

Postwar to contemporary women: 1945 to present

Women in the arts: 1890s to present

Women in politics: 1920s to present.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439661208

1439661200