Ashley E. Remer, Tiffany R. Isselhardt

Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Who are the girls that helped build America? Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls' contributions to society and culture. This oversight is challenged by Girl Museum and their team, who give voices to the most neglected, yet profoundly impactful, historical narratives of American history: young girls. Exploring American Girls' History through 50 Historic Treasures showcases girls and their experiences through the lens of place and material culture. Discover how the objects and sites that girls left behind tell stories about America that you have never heard before. Readers will journey from the first peoples who called the continent home, to 21st century struggles for civil rights, becoming immersed in stories that show how the local impacts the global and vice versa, as told by the girls who built America. Their stories, dreams, struggles, and triumphs are the centerpiece of the nation's story as never before, helping to define both the struggle and meaning of being "American." This full-color book is a must-read for those who yearn for more balanced representation in historic narratives, as well as an inspiration to young people, showing them that everyone makes history. It includes color photographs of all the treasured objects explored.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538120903
• Artikelnr.: 61126832

Autorenporträt

Ashley E. Remer is the founder and Head Girl of Girl Museum-the first and only museum in the world dedicated to celebrating girlhood. She holds an MA in the History and Criticism of Art from the University of Auckland. For over two decades, Ashley has worked as an art historian, curator, writer, and editor internationally. She has collaborated with artists, NGOs, scholars, educators, and girls across the globe showcasing girl culture to raise awareness and promote social change. Her research focuses on girlhood in various local and global contexts. She is currently working on her PhD at the Australian National University and is the co-chair of the Girls' History and Culture Network with the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface: Why Girls?
Timeline
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Finding Girls in American History
PART I
9500 BCE to 1590s CE - In Search of 'Home'
Xaasaa Na' (Upward Sun River), AlaskaHa'ena State Park, Kaua'i,
Hawai'iMound 72, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville,
Illinois"The Display with Which a Queen Elect is Brought to the
King"Virginia Dare Monument, Roanoke, North CarolinaPART II
1600 to 1760s - Her and Me: Otherness in the New World
Pocahontas Statue, Jamestown, VirginiaSamuel Parris Archaeological Site,
Danvers, MassachusettsMary Wright's SamplerMary Jemison Statue, Letchworth
State Park, New YorkPhillis Wheatley Statue, Boston, MassachusettsPART III
1770s to 1840s - Becoming "American"
Anna Greene Winslow's DiarySybil Ludington Statue, Carmel, New
YorkSacajawea Statue, Salmon, IdahoBill of Sale for a Girl Named Clary and
Runaway Advertisement for Harriet TubmanPantaloonsPatty Reed's DollPART IV
1850s to 1860s - Reckoning
Lime Rock Light House, Newport, Rhode IslandBelle Boyd House, Martinsburg,
West VirginiaReminiscences of My Life in Camp by Susie King Taylor"Vinnie
Ream at Work"Poems and Translations by Emma LazarusPART V
1870s to 1910s - Hope
"Group in Bathing Costumes" by Alice AustenWater Pump at Ivy Green,
AlabamaStatue of Annie Moore, Ellis Island, New YorkPortrait of Georgia
Rooks DwellePART VI
1870s to 1910s - Strife
Photograph of Princess Kai'ulani"Indian Girls dressed for a ball
game""Sadie Pfeifer" by Lewis HinesDormitory at Angel Island,
CaliforniaPART VII
1910s to 1940s - Becoming "Modern" American Girls
Girl Scout Pledge CardPaper Doll of Clara Bow Cashay Sanitary Puffs"Stand
Up and Cheer" Dress worn by Shirley Temple"Jumping Rope on Sidewalk" by
Edwin RosskamPART VIII
1940s to 1950s - Voices
Elizabeth Kikuchi's Letter to Clara BreedSeventeen MagazinePatty-Jo
DollMonument to the Westminster Case Children, Westminster,
CaliforniaTransportation Token from Montgomery, AlabamaBarbie Teen-Age
Fashion Model PART IX
1960s to 1970s - Revolutions
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" by The ShirellesKachina DollAre You
There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeMary Beth Tinker's Black
Armband"Peggy Oki" by Pat DarrinPART X
1980s to Present - Girl Power
Selena Quintanilla Memorial, Corpus Christi, TexasDominique Dawes's
LeotardRookie Yearbook OneGoldieBlox and the Spinning MachineLetter by Anna
Lee Rain Yellowhammer and Photograph of Mari CopenyAfterword: The Future of
American Girlhood
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors