Anne Firor Scott (1921–2019)

Auteur de The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930

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A propos de l'auteur

Anne Firor Scott was born Anne Byrd Firor in Montezuma, Georgia on April 24, 1921. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in political science from Northwestern University. In 1943, she went to Washington for an internship in a congressman's office, afficher plus then took a job the next year with the League of Women Voters. She got married in 1947. She worked on a Ph.D. while raising the couple's three children. She received a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1958. She taught a few American history courses at the University of North Carolina before joining the history department at Duke University in 1961. She stayed for 30 years and served as department chairwoman from 1980 to 1985. She wrote several books including The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 and Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History. She received the 2013 National Humanities Medal. She died on February 5, 2019 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Comprend les noms: Anne Firor Scott, Anne Firor Scott, Anne Firor Scott, Anne Firor ed. Scott, Comp. Anne Firor Scott, Editor Anne Firor Scott

Crédit image: University of Washington

Œuvres de Anne Firor Scott

Populaires Récent

The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 (1970) 100 exemplaires

The American Woman : Who Was She? (1971) 50 exemplaires

Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History (1991) 44 exemplaires

One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage (1975) 20 exemplaires

Making the Invisible Woman Visible (1984) 19 exemplaires

Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White (2006) 16 exemplaires

Virginia Women: The First 200 Years (The Foundations of America Series) (1988) 13 exemplaires

Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women (Feminist Issues : Practice, Politics, Theory) (1993) 11 exemplaires

Life in America Series: Women in American Life (1970) 4 exemplaires

The North Carolina Historical Review, Volume 68, Number 3 (July 1991) (1991) 3 exemplaires

By Anne Firor Scott - The Southern Lady: 25th Anniv Ed.: 1st (first) Edition (1996) 1 exemplaire

Women in American Life. Selected Readings (1970) 1 exemplaire

Women & Men: Changing Roles Relationships and Perceptions 1 exemplaire

The Southern Lady: A Celebration of Anne Firor Scott - a commemorative re-printing of her 1979 essay "Self Portraits:… 1 exemplaire

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Oeuvres associées

Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1982) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 333 exemplaires

Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (1938) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 144 exemplaires

Vein of Iron (1935) — Postface, quelques éditions — 126 exemplaires

Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman (The Norton Library) (1969) — Introduction — 50 exemplaires

The Hard-Boiled Virgin (1926) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 29 exemplaires

Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives: Volume 1 (2003) — Avant-propos — 11 exemplaires

The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years (2006) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires

Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott (2011) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

Journal of Mormon History - Volume 13 (1986-87) (1987) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

Étiqueté

A lire (3) Activisme politique (2) Amérique (3) Biographie (4) Colonial Period (3) conditions sociales (6) Culture (4) Droit de vote (8) Droit de vote des femmes (2) du sud (5) femmes (30) Féminisme (10) Féministe (2) Gender studies (7) Genre (5) Guion Griffis Johnson (2) Histoire (39) histoire américaine (14) Histoire des femmes (20) Histoire des États-Unis (4) Historiographie (3) history of feminism (3) non catégorisé (2) non-fiction (12) Politique (7) QC-needed-ISBN-import (2) southern history (5) Sud (3) temperance (2) Thèse (2) théorie féministe (2) United States History (2) Virginie (5) women's associations (4) XIXe siècle (9) XVIIe siècle (3) XVIIIe siècle (3) XXe siècle (5) États-Unis (9) Études féministes (15)

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Date de naissance: 1921-04-24
Date de décès: 2019-02-06
Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Montezuma, Georgia, USA
Lieu du décès: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Lieux de résidence: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Études: University of Georgia (AB | 1941)
Northwestern University (MA | 1944)
Radcliffe College (PhD | 1949)
Professions: professor of history
Organisations: Southern Historical Association ( [1989])
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians (president)
Phi Beta Kappa
Duke University

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Unheard voices : the first historians of southern… par Anne Firor Scott

Dr. Scott gave a brief biography and evaluation of their careers as historians of "five women who had lived, studied, or worked within a twelve-mile radius of each other in North Carolina" during the late 1920s and 30s (p. 1). These historians are: Virginia Gearhart Gray, Marjorie Mendenhall, Julia Cherry Spruill, Guion Griffis Johnson, and Eleanor Miot Boatwright. Following that chapter, Dr. Scott included an essay on women's history by each of these historians preceded by a brief introduction in which she gave a brief background concerning the importance of the essay. Pictures of each historian as a young woman and as a mature woman are included.

This book was published in 1993 so that the comments about current conditions are out-of-date. Still the book is a valuable contribution in women's history.… (plus d'informations)

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sallylou61 | Jun 15, 2017 |

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