Two Women Look West

Author : Helen C. Kleberg
Publisher : Bright Sky Press
ISBN 13 : 9781931721738
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Women Look West Notecard Collection written by Helen C. Kleberg and published by Bright Sky Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve museum-quality notecards from the Two Women Look West museum exhibition in a reusable cigar-style box containing photographs from the famed King Ranch in Texas, taken by Toni Frissell and Helen Kleberg.

Author : Marisa C. Sánchez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Women Look West written by Marisa C. Sánchez and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223270
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Women in the Old West written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and previously untold history of the American West, as seen by the pioneering women who advocated for their rights amidst challenges of migration and settlement, and transformed the country in the process Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by adventure, opportunity, and the spirit of Manifest Destiny. These settlers soon realized that survival in a new society required women to compromise eastern sensibilities and take on some of their husbands’ responsibilities. At a time when women had very few legal or economic--much less political--rights, these women soon proved just as essential as men to westward expansion. During the mid-nineteenth century, the traditional domestic model of womanhood shifted to include public service, with the women of the West becoming town mothers who established schools, churches, and philanthropies, while also coproviding for their families. They claimed their own homesteads and graduated from new, free coeducational colleges that provided career alternatives to marriage. In 1869, the men of the Wyoming Territory gave women the right to vote--partly to persuade more of them to move west--but with this victory in hand, western suffragists fought relentlessly until the rest of the region followed suit. By 1914 western women became the first American women to vote--a right still denied to women in every eastern state. In New Women in the Old West, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the riveting history of the little-known women--the White, Black, and Asian settlers, and the Native Americans and Hispanics they displaced--who played monumental roles in one of America's most transformative periods. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, Gallagher weaves together the striking legacy of the persistent individuals who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies, but also played a vital, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement and forever redefined the "American woman."

Author : M.L. Lloyd
Publisher : Tellwell Talent
ISBN 13 : 1773709305
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to the West Valley Wall written by M.L. Lloyd and published by Tellwell Talent. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction writer Jack Van Horne has been struggling with an increasing case of Agoraphobia for about the past ten years. This mental affliction makes him powerless to leave his current surroundings of the street his apartment is situated. His doctor has tried many types of medication with zero effect to break him from his self-imposed prison. The impact of his mental illness prevents Jack from finishing the final book of his space fantasy series, which has increased the psychological strain on his well being. Jack’s editor believes he is just suffering from writer’s block. However, Jack knows that he isn’t well and that people are dismissing his mental illness as a genuine illness. When Jack is tasked with watching his niece for two days out of the sanctity of his safe zone surroundings, his journey begins to the West Valley Wall. In Jack’s mind, this adventure will either aid in his sanity or cement his demise.

Author : Thomas A. Hale
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010217
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Songs from West Africa written by Thomas A. Hale and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.

Author : Virginia Scharff
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262190
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Lands written by Virginia Scharff and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes—a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. Home Lands: How Women Made the West upends this view to remember the West as a place of homes and habitations brought into being by the women who lived there. Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken consider history’s long span as they explore the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal Western landscapes: the Rio Arriba of northern New Mexico, the Front Range of Colorado, and the Puget Sound waterscape. This beautiful book, companion volume to the Autry National Center’s pathbreaking exhibit, is a brilliant aggregate of women’s history, the history of the American West, and studies in material culture. While linking each of these places’ peoples to one another over hundreds, even thousands, of years, Home Lands vividly reimagines the West as a setting in which home has been created out of differing notions of dwelling and family and differing concepts of property, community, and history. Copub: Autry National Center of the American West

Author : Hilary Hallett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953681
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Go West, Young Women! written by Hilary Hallett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a "New Woman." Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford’s rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood’s first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.

Author : Joanne Wilke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803209975
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West written by Joanne Wilke and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of a group of farm girls who met while attending Iowa's Teacher's College and who shared a "yen to see some things." A blend of oral and written history, adventure, memoir, and just plain heartfelt living, this book presents a story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Author : Wendy Watriss
Publisher : Fotofest
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fotofest 2006 written by Wendy Watriss and published by Fotofest. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georges Duby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674403697
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in the West written by Georges Duby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.