On Wisconsin Women

by Genevieve G. McBride
On Wisconsin Women
Author: Genevieve G. McBride
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299140045
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On Wisconsin Women traces the role women played in reform movements, both in Wisconsin state politics and in its press. Women's news and opinions often appeared anonymously in abolitionist journals and other reform newspapers even before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. The first state newspaper published under a woman's name was boycotted and failed in 1853. But from the passage of the 14th amendment in 1866 to Wisconsin's ratification of the 19th amendment in 1919, women were never at a loss for words or a newspaper to print them. Women's news won a new respectability under feminine bylines and led to the historic victory for women's suffrage. McBride undertakes the task of considering feminist reform as a conceptual whole.

Women's Wisconsin

by Genevieve G. McBride
Women's Wisconsin
Author: Genevieve G. McBride
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0870205633
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Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium, a women's history anthology published on Women's Equality Day 2005, made history as the first single-source history of Wisconsin women. This unique tome features dozens of excerpts of articles as well as primary sources, such as women's letters, reminiscences, and oral histories, previously published over many decades in the Wisconsin Magazine of History and other Wisconsin Historical Society Press publications. Editor and historian Genevieve G. McBride provides the contextual commentary and overarching analysis to make the history of Wisconsin women accessible to students, scholars, and lifelong learners.

Calling This Place Home

by Joan M. Jensen
Calling This Place Home
Author: Joan M. Jensen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2009-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873517288
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An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.

Such Anxious Hours

by Jo Ann Daly Carr
Such Anxious Hours
Author: Jo Ann Daly Carr
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299324206
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Letters from soldiers to their families often provide prominent narratives of the Civil War. But what about the messages from the women who maintained homes and farmsteads alone, all while providing significant emotional support to their loved ones at the front? The letters and diaries of these eight women echo the ever-growing horrors of the conflict and reveal the stories of the Wisconsin home front. Twenty-one-year-old Emily Quiner sought a way to join the war effort that would feed her heart and mind. Annie Cox wrote to her pro-slavery fiancé to staunchly defend her abolitionist principles. Sisters Susan Brown and Ann Waldo faced the unexpected devastation that each battle brought to families. In Such Anxious Hours, Jo Ann Daly Carr places this material in historical context, detailing what was happening simultaneously in the nation, state, and local communities. Civil War history enthusiasts will appreciate these enlightening perspectives that demonstrate the variety of experiences in the Midwest during the bloody conflict.

Holding the World Together

by Nwando Achebe
Holding the World Together
Author: Nwando Achebe
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 029932110X
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Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney

Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder

by Mountain Wolf Woman
Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder
Author: Mountain Wolf Woman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1961
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780472061099
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A classic ethnography of continuing importance

Nell's Story

by Nell Peters
Nell's Story
Author: Nell Peters
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299144746
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The year was 1951, and Nell Peters, just out of high school in the north woods of Wisconsin, was about to join the army. Feeling woefully unworldly, she asked the undertaker's grandson to initiate her into sex before she ventured off. She wasn't in the WACs long before she found herself pregnant and heading home to face the kind of adventure she hadn't looked for. An outrageous fortune, but of a piece with Nell's whole story, from her harrowing birth in a snowstorm to her current occupation running a perpetual garage sale to benefit disabled veterans. Sometimes funny, sometimes gritty, always wildly candid and sexual, this is a remarkable account of a woman's life lived in extremity.

Bookwomen

by Jacalyn Eddy
Bookwomen
Author: Jacalyn Eddy
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2006-09-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299217930
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The most comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the Horn Book, shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization. What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about "good reading" for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs of professional life. Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.