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Shaping the public good : women making history in the Pacific Northwest /

"Carved into a rock overlooking the Columbia River stands the arresting image of Tsagaglalal, or "She Who Watches," an ancient female chief. As the Wishram people recount, when men replaced women in positions of power, Tsagaglalal was turned to stone by Coyote so that she could foreve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armitage, Susan H. (Susan Hodge), 1937- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction.
  • 1. First women, 10,000 BCE-1770s
  • 2. Between worlds : Métis and missionary women, 1780s-1840s
  • 3. A shared venture, 1840s-1860s
  • 4. Invaders, 1850s-1880s
  • 5. Civilizers, 1860s-1870s
  • 6. Women together, women apart 1880s-1890s
  • 7. Bold spirits, 1890s-1920
  • 8. Crosscurrents, 1916-1929
  • 9. Home fires, 1930-1945
  • 10. Cold War country 1950s
  • 11. The noisy and quiet revolutions 1960s-1980s
  • 12. This land we call home, 1990s-2010s.
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.