Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-century Florida

Author:   Jack E. Davis ,  Kari Frederickson ,  Raymond Arsenault ,  Gary Mormino
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
ISBN:  

9780813026046


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   31 March 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-century Florida


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From Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida's first congresswoman, and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, to Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the first chairwoman of the Seminole Tribe, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion of the Everglades, Making Waves examines the lives and works of women activists who made a significant impact on Florida in the last century. This collection enriches our understanding of the history of modern Florida and the role women played in it. To a degree greater than any other southern state in the 20th century, Florida experienced dramatic economic, political, social, and environmental challenges, and Florida's women were in the forefront of the great social and political responses to those challenges. These 13 essays describe the contributions made by women in urban renewal, civil liberties, civil rights, child welfare, labor unions, education, environmental protection, rural extension work, and women's liberation. By illuminating the involvement of the state's women in many of these fundamental issues, Making Waves provides a long-overdue chapter in Florida history. It will also contribute to the advancement of the study of women's history by examining women's activism in a variety of contexts and illustrating how this activism was often circumscribed by class and racial bias.

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Author:   Jack E. Davis ,  Kari Frederickson ,  Raymond Arsenault ,  Gary Mormino
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780813026046


ISBN 10:   0813026040
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   31 March 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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"""These essays lift up the lives of outstanding Florida women who helped shape the course of 20th-century Florida."" - James B. Crooks, University of North Florida"


These essays lift up the lives of outstanding Florida women who helped shape the course of 20th-century Florida. - James B. Crooks, University of North Florida


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Jack E. Davis is associate professor of history at University of Florida and author of The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (UPF) and Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and director of the University Honors College at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, and author of St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950 (UPF).

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