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Title Feminist frontiers : women who shaped the Midwest / edited by Yvonne J. Johnson
Published Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 206 pages) : illustrations, map
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
Summary "Women's stories are noticeably absent from the master narrative of 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women political activists -- Middle West -- Biography
Women civil rights workers -- Middle West -- Biography
Women social reformers -- Middle West -- Biography
Feminists -- Middle West -- Biography
Women -- Middle West -- Biography
Women -- Political activity -- Middle West -- History
Sex role -- Middle West -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminists
Politics and government
Sex role
Social conditions
Women
Women civil rights workers
Women political activists
Women -- Political activity
Women social reformers
SUBJECT Middle West -- Biography
Middle West -- Social conditions
Middle West -- Politics and government
Subject Middle West
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Yvonne, 1945-
ISBN 9781935503774
1935503774