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sixty years in America's first gay and lesbian town
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Newton, Esther
- Publish Year
- 1993
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 1993 - B
- Thesaurus
- steden, homo's, lesbische vrouwen, dagelijks leven, uitgaan, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
the public lives of Jewish American women 1880-1980
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sochen, June
- Publish Year
- 1981
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 1981 - B
- Thesaurus
- joodse vrouwen, dagelijks leven, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 1880-1889, 1890-1899, 20e eeuw, vrouwenarbeid, politici, jodendom
four generations of a family
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boyer, Ruth McDonald
- Creator
- Gayton, Narcissus Duffy
- Publish Year
- 1992
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 1992 - B
- Thesaurus
- indianen, dagelijks leven, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Manen, Bertien van > (photo's : ed.)
- Creator
- Geerts, Bas > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- mijnwerkers, gezinnen, dagelijks leven, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, fotoboek
- Description
- Portrait of American Appalachian folk, a mythologised region populated by ‘moonshiners'. The images were made from 1985 through to 2013.
the United States and the two Germanys, 1945-1989
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hagemann, Karen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Michel, Sonya > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Evans, Jennifer V.
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- rolgedrag, gender, identiteit, etniciteit, oorlog en vrede, tweede wereldoorlog, seksueel geweld, politiek, cultuur, krijgsmacht, dagelijks leven, sociale klasse, immigratie, mannelijkheid, huwelijken, gezinnen, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, Verenigde Staten, West-Duitsland, Oost-Duitsland, 20e eeuw, 1940-1949, 1950-1999
- Description
- This book examines gender politics during the post-World War II period and the Cold War in the United States and East and West Germany. The authors show how disruptions of older political and social patterns, exposure to new cultures, population shifts, and the rise of consumerism affected gender roles and identities. Comparing all three countries, chapters analyse the ways that gender figured into relations between victor and vanquished and shaped everyday life in both the Western and Soviet blocs. Topics include the gendering of the immediate aftermath of war: the military, politics, and changing masculinities in postwar societies: policies to restore the gender order and foster marriage and family: demobilization and the development of postwar welfare states: and debates over sexuality (gay and straight).
gender, culture, and politics
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Langa, Helen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Wisotzki, Paula > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- kunstenaressen, loopbanen, dagelijks leven, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Numerous American women artists built successful professional careers in the mid-twentieth century while confronting challenging cultural transitions: shifts in stylistic avant-gardism, harsh political transformations, and changing gender expectations for both women and men. However, while a few women working during these decades have gained significant recognition, many others are still consigned to historical obscurity. The essays in this volume take varied approaches to revising this historical silence. Two focus on evidence of gender biases in several exhibitions and contemporary critical writings: the rest discuss individual artists’ complex relationships to mainstream developments, with attention to gender and political biases, cultural innovations, and the influence of racial/ethnic diversity. Several also explore new interpretative directions to open alternative possibilities for evaluating women’s aesthetic and formal choices. Contents: Introduction: challenges, tensions, accomplishments / Helen Langa. Part I Exhibitions: Opportunities and Resistances: Art of this century: a transitional space for women / Siobhan M. Conaty: Gender, modern art, and native women painters in the first half of the 20th century / Cynthia Fowler. Part II Survival, Politics and Gender: Dorothy Dehner's early career: leftist politics and complicated myths / Paula Wisotzki: Elizabeth Catlett in Mexico at mid-century: navigating gender and visual politics across cultural borders / Melanie Anne Herzog: Honoré Sharrer: a Cold War reception / M. Melissa Wolfe: Strategies of artistic survival: Julia Thecla’s science fictions of the 1960s / Joanna Gardner-Huggett. Part III Alternative Media, Alternative Visions: Innovative etchings: Louise Nevelson at Atelier 17 / Christina Weyl: The crafted abstraction of Ruth Asawa, Kay Sekimachi, and Toshiko Takaezu / Krystal R. Hauseur: Withstanding entanglement: Claire Zeisler and 1960s fiber art reconsidered / Mary Caroline Simpson. Part IV From Formalist Abstraction to Feminist Agency: A rose by other names: lesbian artists, formalism, coded representation / Helen Langa: Departing the plane: Charmion von Wiegand’s otherworldly abstractions of the 1950s / Aliza Edelman: What Alma Thomas teaches: the district as art lesson / Seth Feman: Performing agency in Carolee Schneemann's The Queen's Dog (1965) / Mary McGuire.
the history and heritage of Chicanas in the U.S.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cotera, Martha P.
- Publish Year
- 1976
- Shelfmark
- B6636 - B
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, betaalde arbeid, onderwijs, gezinnen, latina's, Mexicaans, allochtonen, oude culturen, kolonialisme, historisch, Verenigde Staten, Mexico, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The text is reprinted from 'Profile on the Mexican American woman' by Martha P. Cotera.
community activism in suburban queens, 1945-1965
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Murray, Sylvie
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4757 - B
- Thesaurus
- moeders, huisvrouwen, sociale klasse, burgerschap, dagelijks leven, vrouwenbewegingen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This study traces the political activities of a diverse group of middle-class suburban women and brings into focus the central role played by full-time mothers and housewives as community activists. She looks at fictional characters, and also at the history of Queens 1945-1965 and at the work of Betty Friedan.
portraits of a modern marriage, 1899-1944
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boyce, Neith
- Creator
- Hapgood, Hutchins
- Creator
- Trimberger, Ellen Kay > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Benstock, Shari
- Publish Year
- 1991
- Shelfmark
- VS 32 1991 - B
a century of women speak about their lives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Miedzian, Myriam
- Creator
- Malinovich, Alisa
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 1997 - B
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, leeftijdsgroepen, jeugd, gezinnen, arbeid, oral history, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Verhalen van drie generaties vrouwen in de VS over hun jeugd en het gezinsleven, hun opleiding, ambities en werk, over hun positie als vrouw en seksediscriminatie. Het betreft vrouwen van verschillende etnische en sociale achtergrond. De eerste generatie vrouwen is geboren tussn 1900 en 1930, de tweede tussen 1930 en 1950, de derde tussen 1950 en 1970.
women who invented the twentieth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rowbotham, Sheila
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 1D 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, kiesrecht, vakbonden, seksualiteit, moederschap, burgerschap, huishoudelijke arbeid, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, eeuwwisseling, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off corsets, forming free unions, living communally, buying ethically, joining trade unions, doing social work in settlements, these 'dreamers of a new day' challenged ideas about sexuality, mothering, housework, the economy and citizenship.
- Creator
- Essed, Philomena
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2018
- Thesaurus
- racisme, zwarte vrouwen, dagelijks leven, witte vrouwen, mannen, etniciteit, Surinaams, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, Nederland, Verenigde Staten, 1980-1989, 20e eeuw, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw, interview (vorm)
- Description
- Philomena Essed sprak aan het begin van de jaren tachtig van de twintigste eeuw met een twintigtal Surinaamse vrouwen in Nederland en Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de Verenigde Staten over de vooroordelen en het racisme dat deze vrouwen ondervonden in hun alledaagse omgang met witte mensen bij situaties op het werk, het zoeken naar woonruimte, het contact met buren of collega's, bij het winkelen, in de bus of in de tram. Essed noemde dit alledaags racisme: een diffuus geheel van steeds terugkerende patronen van discriminatie en vooroordeel.
- Heruitgave van 'Alledaags racisme' uit 1984, aangevuld met een nieuw hoofdstuk over eigengerechtigd racisme: het racisme dat wordt gerechtvaardigd met een beroep op de vrijheid van meningsuiting.
cookbooks and gender in modern America
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Neuhaus, Jessamyn
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- voeding, dagelijks leven, etniciteit, sociale klasse, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, tweede wereldoorlog
- Description
- From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by today's celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In this bookb the author offers an analysis of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, uncovering the cultural assumptions particularly about women and domesticity they contain.While she finds that cookbooks aimed to make readers—mainly white, middle-class women—into effective, modern-age homemakers who saw joy in their domestic tasks, she notes that the phenomenal popularity of Peg Bracken's 1960 cookbook, The I Hate to Cook Book, attests to the limitations of this kind of indoctrination. At the same time, she explores the proliferation of bachelor cookbooks aimed at 'the man in the kitchen' and the biases they display about male and female abilities and responsibilities. Neuhaus also addresses the impact of World War II rationing on homefront cuisine: the introduction of new culinary technologies, gourmet sensibilities, and ethnic foods into American kitchens: and developments in the cookbook industry since the 1960s.
the story of the WomanShare Collective
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 1976
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 1976 - B
- Thesaurus
- woongroepen, lesbianisme, lesbische bewegingen, lesbische vrouwen, dagelijks leven, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The founders of the lesbian collective WomanShare in Oregon, United States, document their experiences of the early years of this lesbian separatist community and discuss their feminist ideas. Autobiographical writings included.
memory and meaning in everyday life
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Horton, Laurel
- Creator
- Jones, Michael Owen > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- textielkunst, dagelijks leven, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Exploration of the changing functions and meanings of quilts within the life of a South Carolina family from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Central person - Mary Louise Snoddy Black (1860 - 1927) - accumulated sixteen quilts made by women in her family. In seeking to understand how and why the quilts in Mary Black's collection came about, as well as their role in the daily lives of family, friends, and community, the author draws upon oral history interviews and archival materials, like personal letters, journals, ledgers, wills, estate records, newspaper articles, obituaries, and census reports dating back to the eighteenth century.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Garceau-Hagen, Dee > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2005
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, vrouwbeelden, ondernemers, actiegroepen, religieuzen, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, Chinees, gender, etnische verhoudingen, cultuur, kolonialisme, sportberoepen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens, essay
- Description
- Collection of biographical essays about women from the intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are essays about an African-American entrepreneur, a northern Paiute activist, an Ursuline nun, an enslaved Chinese settler, and a Chippewa-Cree basketball player.
making history
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Smith, Margaret Supplee
- Creator
- Wilson, Emily Herring
- Creator
- Betts, Doris > (forew.)
- Creator
- Buford, Elizabeth F. > (pref.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 1A 1999 - C
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, vrouwen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Stories and pictures to demonstrate how North Carolina women lived, from the days of early native settlements to the end of World War II. Throughout the book are biographies of twenty-two North Carolina women, from Cherokee Beloved Woman Nanye'hi and frontierswoman Rebecca Bryan Boone to civil rights scholar and priest Pauli Murray and political activist Gladys Avery Tillett.
Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Enstam, Elizabeth York
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- VS 1L 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, steden, arbeidsparticipatie, politieke participatie, arbeidsverdeling naar sekse, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Onderzocht is het verleggen van de (kunstmatige) grenzen tussen mannen en vrouwen, door vrouwen bewerkstelligd om zo meer invloed te hebben op de ontwikkeling van het stedelijk leven, zoals in Dallas, Texas tussen 1843 en 1920. Auteur benadrukt het belang van het werk van vrouwen.
domestic life beyond consumption
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Purbrick, Louise
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 32 2007
- Thesaurus
- huwelijksgebruiken, huwelijken, dagelijks leven, consumenten, samenwonen, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, Europa, 20e eeuw, 1940-1949, 1950-1999
- Description
- In this book Purbrick offers an analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Focusing on gift-giving in Britain from 1945 to the present, comparative context is provided by material from North America and Europe. .By considering how the specific contexts in which consumption occurs, such as married domesticity, can limit possible versions of selfhood, The Wedding Present tests the assumption that consuming creates individual identities. Thus, the book argues, consumption cannot be isolated as an explanation of individual or social formation. .The publication consists of: Introduction: Making homes and worlds: marriage and consumption from 1945 to today : Objects of approval : China and pyrex: the practices of preservation : Accounting for change: forgotten, neglected and altered objects : The list: domesticity, conformity and class (The gift list): Methods: mass-observation : Afterword: unmarried households.
menstruation in twentieth-century America
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Freidenfelds, Lara
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2009
- Thesaurus
- menstruatie, vrouwenlichamen, gezondheid, voorlichting, reclames, dagelijks leven, seksualiteit, premenstrueel syndroom, middenklasse, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade cloth 'diapers' to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during their periods, and counted themselves lucky if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however, made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women sought new information and products that would make their monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life. Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift. She explains how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers, and doctors to create a modern understanding of menstruation. Excerpts from seventy-five interviews help readers to identify with the experiences of the ordinary people who engineered these changes. The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the twentieth century. Freidenfelds explores what it meant to be modern and middle class and how those ideals were reflected in the menstrual practices and beliefs of the time. This study sheds new light on the history of popular modernity, the rise of the middle class, and the relationship of these phenomena to how Americans have cared for and managed their bodies.