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Alison Thorne provides a small-town Utah perspective on the progressive social movements that in the mid to late twentieth century dramatically affected American society. A born activist, Thorne has fought for women's rights, educational reform in public schools and universities, the environmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thorne, Alison Comish
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2002.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thorne, Alison Comish.
College teachers > Utah > Biography.
Women college teachers > Utah > Biography.
Feminism and education > Utah.
EDUCATION > Higher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
College teachers.
Feminism and education.
Women college teachers.
Utah.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / F. Ross Peterson
  • Introduction
  • Growing Up in the 1920s
  • The Progressive movement
  • The Great Depression and College Years
  • Producing Children and Books: The 1940s
  • Search for Values
  • Conformity and Creativity
  • Social Justice: The 1960sFeminist Straws in the Wind
  • Activism in the 1970s
  • The Women's Movement at Utah State University
  • The Widening Reach of the Women's Movement
  • The University, Women, and History
  • Gathering up Loose Ends
  • Appendix: The Life and Career of Wynne Thorne
  • Postscript: What Became of the Children?

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