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The Dance Of Domesticity: How Gender Constructs Obscure Lived Experience At Museums, Marcy J. Botwick

Museum Studies Theses

My thesis focuses on Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein and Ernest L. Blumenschein, married artists born in the late 1860s. Ernest Blumenschein was an important regional artist and member of the Taos Society of Artists (TSA). Paintings by Blumenschein and other TSA members promoted tourism in the Southwestern United States through annual exhibitions and their use in advertising the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF). Mary Greene Blumenschein was an award-winning painter and illustrator whose work focused on images of women at the beginning of the twentieth century, however, she is now a secondary and obscure figure in art history. …

Beach Bodies: Gender And The Beach In American Culture, 1880-1940, Margaret Elena Depond

History ETDs

This dissertation argues that American beaches, within the world of leisure and pleasure, were significant contested spaces of social change and debate. Overtime, from about 1880 to 1940, social restrictions loosened at the beach, allowing men, women, and people of color to express themselves in ways that had been previously controlled, curtailed, or proscribed. The emergence of mass popular amusements at the beach attracted a wide array of the American population. Both working-class and middle-class Americans absorbed the culture of new beach attractions, such as amusement parks, piers, boardwalks, and bathhouses. In doing so, they interacted more with each other …

"Not Your Mother's Pta": Women's Political Activism In Twentieth-Century America, Jennifer Lynn Mcpherson

History ETDs

Not Your Mother’s PTA: Women’s Political Activism in Twentieth-Century America provides the first in-depth study of women’s political activism in the National PTA and its local PTA units. It closely examines how women integrated themselves and their ideas on women’s and children’s welfare reform into government from the 1890s through the 1970s. This project explores the resources, strategies, and methods used by PTA women working for women and children’s interests at the local and national level, primarily in public schools and government agencies. Not Your Mother’s PTA challenges the subtext of the PTA mother/housewife and shows how women used the …

Barbara Brown Simmons (Ba 1969, Jd 1974), Unm Black Alumni Chapter Oral History Project

UNM Black Alumni Oral History Collection

Video of interview with Barbara Brown Simmons, who earned her BA from UNM in 1969 and her JD in 1974. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the UNM School of Law, and a cofounder of the UNM Alumni Association Black Alumni Chapter. Interview conducted by Marsha K. Hardeman. Interview runtime is 1 hour, 39 minutes and 2 seconds.

Reflections On Women Of New Mexico, Rosalie Williams

Books

From the beginning of time in New Mexico, women have nurtured, guided, influenced and labored for their people, their families, and their communities. Their contributions have been acknowledged, only in recent years, through the unearthing of women's history. The sources of information about women in the early days had to be teased out from diaries, letters, excavations, oral histories, and other non-traditional sources. Inferences had to be derived from hints and clues in the records of men's activities, then assembled like a jigsaw puzzle into a more complete picture. Learning about the roles and contributions of women to the larger …

Soledad Chávez Chacón: A New Mexico Political Pioneer, 1890-1936, Dan D. Chávez

UNM Historical Documents

This is a study of Soledad Chávez Chacón, a New Mexico political pioneer: she was the first Hispana to be elected to a state office, namely, the office of secretary of state; the first woman to preside as NM governor (as acting governor); and the first Hispana NM state legislator from Bernalillo County.

"For The Best Interests Of The Community": The Origins And Impact Of The Women's Suffrage Movement In New Mexico, 1900-1930, Janine A. Young

History ETDs

This study traces the history of the women's suffrage movement in New Mexico from 1900 to 1930. The movement in the state was an urban phenomenon. City life provided women the opportunity to organize and engage in reform work outside their homes. The suffragists were concerned primarily with various problems in their urban communities. The suffrage movement in New Mexico, therefore, occurred because of local concerns and not national ones.

Beginning around 1900, middle class urban women in New Mexico formed various organizations to work for the improvement of their communities. Their main concerns fell within women's separate sphere. Female …

Saludos Amigas 1964, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

"Welcome to you the coeds of UNM who will be the members of the Associated Women Students for the year 1964-65. This is your handbook. I hope that you will read it carefully so that you may better understand the functions and standards of your self-governing organization."

"This year, A.W.S. is operating under a newly revised constitution. As a governing body, we still retain our three branches--Legislative, Executive and Judicial. The Legislative Council which meets one a week has been expanded to include thirteen elected members. These include the eight officers and five members at large elected from the All …

Saludos Amigas 1962, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

"My warmest greetings are extended to you, the entire study body, and especially to our new women students. We are happy in your selection of the University of New Mexico as your university, and we encourage you to take every advantage of the many opportunities offered for your intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and social growth. With the many offerings of the University, we feel confident that each of you will be able to find many areas of interests and derive satisfactions from participating in and contributing to the over-all university community.

The Associated Women Students are eager to welcome and assist …

Saludas Amigas 1951, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

We are very happy to welcome new students to the University of New Mexico. We believe our University has much to offer its students and alumni. There are many opportunities for participation in activities and in student government. There is a spirit of friendliness prevailing on this southwestern campus which makes it easy for new students to adjust to University life.

All students, especially our women students, are ready and eager to offer their assistance to you. the office of the Dean of Women welcomes the opportunity to know you and to be of service to you.

I join the …

Saludas Amigas 1950, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

A Message from the President of A.W.S.

May I, as president of the Associated Women Students of the University of New Mexico, welcome you, the new women students, to the University and into our organization.

Upon enrollment you automatically became a member of the Associated Women Students, whose purpose it is, not only to promote school spirit, to broaden social interests, and to provide uniform and individual representation in student activities, but also to promote a spirit of friendliness and to act as advisers to our new women students. Only by full cooperation of all can these aims be accomplished. …

Co-Ed Code 1941-1942, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

The Associated Women Students of the Uni­versity of New Mexico wish to present this book­let to the freshmen women and to the upperclass women who are entering the University for the first time.

We are attempting, with its aid, to acquaint the new women students with the activities, regulations, and traditions of the University. By the Co-Ed Code we sincerely hope you will become more quickly acquainted with the Uni­versity and will find a place for yourself among the numerous student activities. It is from co­operation with the University, its faculty, and its student body, through its organizations and activities, …

Co-Ed Code 1940-1941, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

A Message From the President of A.W.S.

May I, as president of the Associated Women Students of the University of New Mexico, wel­come you, the new women students, to the Uni­versity and into our organization.

Upon enrollment you automatically become a member of the Associated Women Students, whose purpose it is, not only to promote school spirit, to broaden social interests, and to provide uniform and individual representation in stu­dent activities, but also to promote a spirit of friendliness and to act as advisers to our new women students. Only by full coöperation of all can these aims be accomplished. …

Co-Ed Code 1937-38, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

The Associated Women Students of the University of New Mexico wish to present this booklet to the Freshmen women and to the upper-class women who are entering the University for the first time.

We are attempting, with its aid, to acquaint the new women students with the history, tradition, customs, and regulations of the University, as well as the many little things which go to make university life.

By the Co-Ed Code we sincerely hope you will become more quickly acquainted with the University and will find a place for yourselves among the varied student activities. It is from co-operation …

Co-Ed Code 1936-37, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

The Associated Women Students of the University of New Mexico wish to present this booklet to the Freshmen women and to the upper-class women who are entering the University for the first time.

We are attempting, with its aid, to acquaint the new women students with the history, tradition, customs, and regulations of the University, as well as the many little things which go to make university life.

By the Co-Ed Code we sincerely hope you will become more quickly acquainted with the University and will find a place for yourselves among the varied student activities. It is from co-operation …

Co-Ed Code 1935-36, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

The Associated Women Students of the University of New Mexico wish to present this booklet to the Freshmen women and to the upper-class women who are entering the University for the first time.

We are attempting, with its aid, to acquaint the new women students with the history, tradition, customs, and regulations of the University, as well as the many little things which go to make university life.

By the Co-Ed Code we sincerely hope you will become more quickly acquainted with the University and will find a place for yourselves among the varied student activities. It is from co-operation …

Regulations Concerning Women Students - October 1920, Unm Board Of Regents

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

"The following Regulations were presented by President Hill with the indorsement [sic] of the Advisory Council of the Faculty and of the General Supervisor of Women, Dr. Edna Mosher. The Regulations (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) were approved by the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents."

(A) -- General Regulations

(B) -- Residence

(C) -- Chaperons

(D) -- Social Functions

(E) -- Sororities