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.

Her Past Around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women's History (Public History Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Katharine T. Corbett

Polly Welts Kaufman

Social Sciences

Krieger Pub. Co

Authors: Katharine T. Corbett Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Pr Keywords: gilded, louis Pages: 102 Published: 1993-10 Language: English Category: State &amp; Local, United States, Americas, History, ISBN-10: 1883982014 ISBN-13: 9781883982010 Binding: Paperback (1st)

St. Louis in the Gilded Age

History

Howard S. Miller

Americas

Missouri Historical Society Pr

The confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers supported some of the earliest settlements in America. From the Cahokia Mounds civilization to the flood of 1993, residents of the St. Louis region have depended on this landscape even as they have threatened its bounty.
In Common Fields, thirteen original essays tell of the city's constant tension between urban growth and environmental sustainability. Geographers, archaeologists, and historians examine the relationship between the city's diverse residents and the environment on which their well-being depends. Whether channeling the river, laying streets, or clearing the air of coal smoke, St. Louisans have shown great ingenuity in overcoming the hazards of city development.
And yet, our solutions to making the best use of the environment have only highlighted more basic societal questions: How do we ensure liberty while providing equal opportunities? How do we recognize uniqueness while eliminating barriers that prevent others' success? The answers have everything to do with our ability to make sensible use of our environment-just as the rivers, fields, and city streets will forever shape the character of this city.

Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis (Volume 1)

Craig E. Colten

Andrew Hurley

Walter Schroeder

William R. Iseminger

Patricia Cleary

F. Terry Norris

Eric Sandweiss

Mark Tebeau

Missouri Histororical Society Press

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