Restoring women's history through historic preservation
Historians, preservationists, and professionals at parks and monuments throughout the country offer essays exploring women's history in historic sites and buildings. The essays highlight exemplary projects that have advanced the integration of women's history into historic preservation, and offer perspectives on preservation policy and practice. Dubrow (architecture, urban design, and planning, U. of Washington) and Goodman (New Hampshire Preservation Alliance) edit 20 chapters with topics including women in the nineteenth-century preservation movement, four African American women on the national landscape, women in the Southern West Virginia coalfields, the archaeology of prostitution in historic Los Angeles, and Parks Canada and women's history. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Print Book, English, ©2003
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©2003
History
x, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780801870521, 0801870526
48691358
Restoring women's history through historic preservation: recent developments in scholarship and public historical practice / Gail Lee Dubrow
Part I. Documenting the history of women in preservation : Women in the nineteenth-century preservation movement / Barbara J. Howe
Special places saved: the role of women in preserving the American landscape / Shaun Eyring
Four African American women on the national landscape / Fath Davis Ruffins
Part II. Revisiting women's lives at historic houses and museums : Uncovering and interpreting women's history at historic house museums / Patricia West
Domestic work portrayed: Philadelphia's restored Bishop William White House: a case study / Karie Diethorn with John Bacon
Putting women in their place: methods and sources for including women's history in museums and historic sites / Edith Mayo
Part III. Claiming new space for women in the built environment and cultural landscape : Rooms of their own: the nurse's residences at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital / Annmarie Adams
On the inside: preserving women's history in American libraries / Abigail A. Van Slyck
Women in the southern West Virginia coalfields / Susan M. Pierce
"A night with Venus, a moon with Mercury": the archaeology of prostitution in historical Los Angeles / Julia G. Costello
Part IV. Exemplary projects : The Power of Place project: claiming women's history in the urban landscape / Dolores Hayden
Best practices for saving women's heritage sites: nonprofit case studies / Jennifer B. Goodman
"It's a wide community indeed": alliances and issues in creating Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York / Judith Wellman
"Raising our sites": a pilot project for integrating women's history into museums / Kim Moon
Finding her place: integrating women's history into historic preservation in Georgia / Leslie N. Sharp
Blazing trails with pink triangles and rainbow flags: improving the preservation and interpretation of gay and lesbian heritage / Gail Lee Dubrow
Part V. Toward an inclusive agenda for preservation policy and practice : Searching for women in the National Register of Historical Places / Carol D. Shull
Reflections on federal policy and its impact on understanding women's past at historical sites / Page Putnam Miller
Parks Canada and women's history / Alan B. McCullough
Afterword : Proceeding from here / Heather A. Huyck
App. A: Participants in the pilot of "Raising our sites: women's history in Pennsylvania"
App. B: Women, women's organizations, and buildings related to women which have been commemorated by the Canadian minister responsible for national historical sites
This essay collection draws upon work presented at three national conferences on women and historic preservation: the first held at Bryn Mawr College in 1994, the second held at Arizona State University in 1997, and the third held at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C. in 2000
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