Women in Pacific Northwest History

This new edition of Karen Blair’s popular anthology originally published in 1989 includes thirteen essays, eight of which are new. Together they suggest the wide spectrum of women’s experiences that make up a vital part of Northwest history.

Acknowledgments

Part 1. New Directions for Research

1. Tied to Other Lives: Women in Pacific Northwest History, Susan Armitage

Part 2. Politics and Law

2. Of Women’s Rights and Freedom: Abigail Scott Duniway, Ruth Barnes Moynihan

3. The Fight for Woman Suffrage and the Oregon Press, Lauren Kessler

4. “His Face is Weak and Sensual”: Portland and the Whipping Post Law, David Peterson del Mar

Part 3. Work

5. Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women’s Right to Work, 1914-1920, Maurine Weiner Greenwald

6. Bertha Knight Landes: The Woman Who Was Mayor, Doris H. Pieroth

7. The Job He Left Behind: Women in the Shipyards During World War II, Karen Beck Skold

Part 4. Race and Ethnicity

8. The Role of Native Women in the Creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1830, Sylvia Van Kirk

9. A Chicana in Northern Aztlan: Dora Sanchez Trevino, Jerry Garcia

10. Gender Equality in the Colville Indian Reservation in Traditional and Contemporary Contexts, Lillian A. Ackerman

Part 5. The Arts

11. Quilts in the Lives of Women Who Migrated to the Northwest, 1850-1990: A Visual Record Bywater, Mary Bywater Cross

12. The Seattle Ladies Musical Club, 1890-1930, Karen J. Blair

13. Tsugiki, a Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington State, Gail M. Nomura

Suggestions for Further Reading

Contributors

Index