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The Humane Metropolis: People And Nature In The 21st Century, Rutherford H. Platt
The Humane Metropolis: People And Nature In The 21st Century, Rutherford H. Platt
University of Massachusetts Press Books
The Humane Metropolis explores the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays and case studies that consider why and how urban places can be made greener and more amenable. Its point of departure is the legacy of William H. Whyte (1917-1999), one of America's most admired urban thinkers. From his eyrie high above Manhattan in the offices of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Whyte laid the foundation for today's "smart growth" and "new urbanist" movements with books such as The Last Landscape (1968). His passion for improving the habitability of cities and suburbs is reflected in the …
When The Girls Came Out To Play: The Birth Of American Sportswear, Patricia Campbell Warner
When The Girls Came Out To Play: The Birth Of American Sportswear, Patricia Campbell Warner
University of Massachusetts Press Books
A study of the evolution of American women’s clothing, When the Girls Came Out to Play traces the history of modern sportswear as a universal style that broke down traditional gender roles. Patricia Warner shows how this profound cultural shift, which did not reach fruition until World War II, originated during the previous century with the gradual expansion of socially acceptable physical activity for women. Behind this development was a growing interest in sports and exercise that was further nurtured by the establishment of schools of higher education for women.The participation of women in athletic pursuits previously reserved for men …
The Needles Eye: Women And Work In The Age Of Revolution, Marla R. Miller
The Needles Eye: Women And Work In The Age Of Revolution, Marla R. Miller
University of Massachusetts Press Books
Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and quilting, answering all of her family’s textile needs. But the Goodwife of popular historical imagination obscures as much as she reveals; the icon appears to explain early American women’s labor history while at the same time allowing it to go unexplained. Tensions of class and gender recede, and the largest artisanal trade open to early American women is obscured in the guise of domesticity.
In this book, Marla R. Miller illuminates the significance of women’s work in the clothing trades of the …
Cemetery Of The Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, And Ingeborg Bachmann, Sara Lennox
Cemetery Of The Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, And Ingeborg Bachmann, Sara Lennox
University of Massachusetts Press Books
Although Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century authors writing in German, her novels and stories have sometimes been viewed narrowly as portraits of women as victims. In this innovative study, Sara Lennox provides a much broader perspective on Bachmann’s work, at the same time undertaking an experiment in feminist methodology.Lennox examines Bachmann’s poetry and prose in historical context, arguing that the varied feminist interpretations of her writings are the result of shifts in theoretical emphases over a period of more than three decades. Lennox then places her own essays on Bachmann …
From Betty Crocker To Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives On Women And Food, Arlene Voski Avakian, Barbara Haber
From Betty Crocker To Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives On Women And Food, Arlene Voski Avakian, Barbara Haber
University of Massachusetts Press Books
In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to food to gain a better understanding of history, culture, economics, and society. The emerging field of food studies has yielded a great deal of useful research and a host of publications. Missing, however, has been a focused effort to use gender as an analytic tool. This stimulating collection of original essays addresses that oversight, investigating the important connections between food studies and women’s studies.
Applying the insights of feminist scholarship to the study of food, the thirteen essays in this volume are arranged under four headings—the …
Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918, Gerald W. Mcfarland
Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918, Gerald W. Mcfarland
University of Massachusetts Press Books
In the popular imagination, New York City’s Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-garde artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who challenged the reigning orthodoxies of their time. Yet a century ago the Village was a much different kind of place: a mixed-class, multiethnic neighborhood teeming with the energy and social tensions of a rapidly changing America. Gerald W.In the popular imagination, New York City’s Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-garde artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who challenged the reigning orthodoxies of their time. …