Here is a guide to finding and presenting places that bring new visibility to women's lives and illuminate their goals. Some of these sites, such as city hall, are not generally associated with women; some are sites of long-forgotten women's activities; others, such as kitchens, usually assumed to be women's domain, reflect unexpected complexities of meaning. Eleven essays explore possibilities for using women's history and feminist analysis to look at familiar places through the lens of gender. Case studies become guides for interpreting or reinterpreting similar places. The text also contains lists of suggested sources pertaining to the subjects presented. The sites analyzed here include homes, gardens, factories, cemeteries, business districts, and even entire communities. They are places to learn about women running millinery shops, surviving in a new country by working in another woman's kitchen, stripping tobacco leaves in a factory in the South, laboring for slave owners, commemorating achievement, and mourning the dead. This collection of essays is designed to be useful to teachers and historical societies searching their own communities for new sites significant to the history of women. The essays also will interest those who want to use local and national historic sites as windows into women's history.
| ISBN | 1575241307 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9781575241302
(What's this?) | | Pages | 270 | | Publisher | Krieger Publishing Company | | Weight (grammes) | 499 | | Imprint | Krieger Publishing Company | | Published in | Melbourne, FL | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Public History S. | | Publication date | 31 Jan 2003 | | Height (mm) | 230 | | Library of Congress | HQ1121.H46 | | Width (mm) | 165 | | DEWEY | 305.409 | | Academic level | General, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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Frontispiece; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Who Walked Before Me? Creating Women's History Trails; Polly Welts Kaufman; Chapter 2. Immortalizing Women: Finding Meaning in Public Sculpture; Eiieen Eagan; Chapter 3. Spider Woman's Grand Design: Making Native American Women Visible in Southwestern History Sites; Tara Travis; Chapter 4. Women's Voices: Reinterpreting Historic House Museums; Bonnie Hurd Smith; Chapter 5. Sunlight and Shadow: Free Space/Slave Space at White Haven; Pamela K. Sanfilippo; Chapter 6. The Servant Slant: Irish Women Domestic Servants and Historic House Museums; Margaret Lynch-Brennan Chapter 7. She's in the Garden: Four Turn-of-the-Century Women and Their Landscapes; Nancy Mayer Wetzel; Chapter 8. Called Home: Finding Women's History in Nineteenth-Century Cemetaries; Katharine T. Corbett; Chapter 9. Revisiting Main Street: Uncovering Women Entrepreneurs; Candace A. Kanes; Chapter 10. "Our Territory": Race, Place, Gender, Space and African American Women in the Urban South; Leslie Brown and Anne M. Valk; Chapter 11. Reinterpreting Public Events: The Impact of Women's History on Public Celebrations; Barbara J. Howe; Index
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