Notable Women of Portland (Images of America) - Hardcover

Prince, Tracy J.; Zadie Schaffer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1467125059 ISBN 13: 9781467125055

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

The story of Portland, Oregon, like much of history, has usually been told with a focus on male leaders. This book offers a reframing of Portland's history--starting from 10,000 years of Native American women, to pioneer women, to women of the Progressive Era, WWI, WWII, and post-war women, with additional chapters on Women in the Arts and Women in Politics. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier, including Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette; pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger; doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair; artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White; suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond, and Eva Emery Dye; lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard; Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee; politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter; and authors Frances Fuller Victor, Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Ursula Le Guin, and Jean Auel. These women, along with groups of women such as "Wendy the Welders," made Portland what it is today.

About this title

From the Author:

Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Native American and Pioneer Women: Pre-1851 to 1870s2. Progressive Era Women: 1870s to 1920s3. Women of World War I and World War II: 1914 to 19454. Postwar to Contemporary Women: 1945 to Present5. Women in the Arts: 1890s to Present6. Women in Politics: 1920s to Present

From the Inside Flap:

On the Cover: Margaret Vale Howe, President Woodrow Wilson's niece, holds the shield representing the Oregon delegation at a 1913 woman's suffrage march in Washington, DC. She was not an Oregonian, but as an actress from a prominent family she was one of the suffrage movement women carrying shields of states that had already won women's suffrage. In 1912, Oregon became the ninth state to approve women's right to vote.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1467125059
• ISBN 13: 9781467125055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128