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American Women Aid Workers in Indochina in the 1960s
written by Jessica Elkind, fl. 2005 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 20 page(s)
Although U.S. political and military efforts in Indochina ended in failure, the civilian aid workers’ record is more complicated. As the documents included in this cluster suggest, women volunteers’ time in Southeast Asia had a profound and often positive effect on their lives as well as those of some people...
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written by Jessica Elkind, fl. 2005 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 20 page(s)
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Although U.S. political and military efforts in Indochina ended in failure, the civilian aid workers’ record is more complicated. As the documents included in this cluster suggest, women volunteers’ time in Southeast Asia had a profound and often positive effect on their lives as well as those of some people in their host country. Some of these women maintained relationships with people they had met or taught in Vietnam. Some of the progra...
Although U.S. political and military efforts in Indochina ended in failure, the civilian aid workers’ record is more complicated. As the documents included in this cluster suggest, women volunteers’ time in Southeast Asia had a profound and often positive effect on their lives as well as those of some people in their host country. Some of these women maintained relationships with people they had met or taught in Vietnam. Some of the programs the American women introduced continued after their departure. Although they have largely been erased from official histories of U.S. involvement in Indochina, women aid workers played an important role and their experiences deserve to be shared.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Jessica Elkind, fl. 2005
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women and Development, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Opposition to Imperialism, Support for Imperialism, Economic Development, Laotians, Vietnamese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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La Citoyenne in the World: Hubertine Auclert and Feminist Imperialism
written by Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 22 page(s)
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written by Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 22 page(s)
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women of Color, Suffrage, Empire and Feminism, Race Discrimination, Support for Imperialism, Kabyle, Arabs, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Emma Willard and the Mapping of Settler Society in North America
written by Susan Schulten, fl. 2012 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 14 page(s)
Emma Willard’s history and atlas are rich documents through which to explore American history as the history of a settler society. Her strong nationalism, combined with her pedagogical experimentation, forcefully influenced contemporary ideas about American history and geography. Her History of the United State...
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written by Susan Schulten, fl. 2012 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 14 page(s)
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Emma Willard’s history and atlas are rich documents through which to explore American history as the history of a settler society. Her strong nationalism, combined with her pedagogical experimentation, forcefully influenced contemporary ideas about American history and geography. Her History of the United States was reprinted almost annually between 1828 and 1864, and Willard herself educated thousands of young women, many of whom would themse...
Emma Willard’s history and atlas are rich documents through which to explore American history as the history of a settler society. Her strong nationalism, combined with her pedagogical experimentation, forcefully influenced contemporary ideas about American history and geography. Her History of the United States was reprinted almost annually between 1828 and 1864, and Willard herself educated thousands of young women, many of whom would themselves go on to teach, armed with her ideas about history, geography, and the national mission.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Susan Schulten, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
November 2017, 2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Emma Hart Willard, 1787-1870
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women as Teachers, Support for Imperialism, Settler Society, American Indians, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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U.S. Empire, 1820-2004: United States Women Shape Political Culture in the Panama Canal Zone, 1903-1975
written by Katherine Marino, 1981- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 29 page(s)
This document cluster explores the role that white U.S. women played in the Canal Zone, the unincorporated territory of the U.S. surrounding the Canal, from the beginning of construction in 1903 to the late 1930s. The primary sources shed light on women’s part in creating the “imperial borderland” around the...
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written by Katherine Marino, 1981- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 29 page(s)
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This document cluster explores the role that white U.S. women played in the Canal Zone, the unincorporated territory of the U.S. surrounding the Canal, from the beginning of construction in 1903 to the late 1930s. The primary sources shed light on women’s part in creating the “imperial borderland” around the Panama Canal, one of the most important overseas possessions of the United States, through their roles as homemakers, nurses, and teac...
This document cluster explores the role that white U.S. women played in the Canal Zone, the unincorporated territory of the U.S. surrounding the Canal, from the beginning of construction in 1903 to the late 1930s. The primary sources shed light on women’s part in creating the “imperial borderland” around the Panama Canal, one of the most important overseas possessions of the United States, through their roles as homemakers, nurses, and teachers, and through their women’s organizations. These women shaped the political culture of the Zone by promoting U.S. middle-class domestic ideals. Yet their objectives did not always comply with U.S. political objectives; they also pushed for rights for themselves as workers, women, and widows, making other demands on the state.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Katherine Marino, 1981-
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Construction of the Panama Canal, 1881 to 1915, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women of Color, Empire and Feminism, Empire and Family Life, Race Discrimination, Support for Imperialism, Caribbean and West Indians, Panamanians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Women in the South African (Anglo-Boer) War, 1899-1902
written by Elizabeth van Heyningen, fl. 2010 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 12 page(s)
To what extent was this a women's war? By 1900 British women in Britain and in some British colonies had gained partial access to the franchise and the right to decent work. Substantial numbers of British and colonial women volunteered to nurse in the South African War. Many came out as teachers in the concentra...
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written by Elizabeth van Heyningen, fl. 2010 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 12 page(s)
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To what extent was this a women's war? By 1900 British women in Britain and in some British colonies had gained partial access to the franchise and the right to decent work. Substantial numbers of British and colonial women volunteered to nurse in the South African War. Many came out as teachers in the concentration camps. In South Africa itself, women on both sides of the conflict supported the cause with passion – for this was both an era...
To what extent was this a women's war? By 1900 British women in Britain and in some British colonies had gained partial access to the franchise and the right to decent work. Substantial numbers of British and colonial women volunteered to nurse in the South African War. Many came out as teachers in the concentration camps. In South Africa itself, women on both sides of the conflict supported the cause with passion – for this was both an era of jingoism, of mindless nationalism, and a time when women were beginning to acquire a place in public life. Above all, however, this was a war in which women and children bore the brunt of the suffering.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Elizabeth van Heyningen, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Lily Rose, fl. 1902, Lucy Deane, 1865-1950, Cassie O'Reilly, fl. 1901, Bettie Grobbelaar Venter, fl. 1899, Annie Rothmann, fl. 1899, Elsa Leviseur, fl. 1899, Teresa Stevenson, fl. 1900, Mrs. Robert Noble, fl. 1899, Jessie Mallett, fl. 1899
Topic / Theme
Boer War, 1899-1902, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Indigenous Women, Settler Society, Relations with Imperial Women, Support for Imperialism, South Africans, Afrikaans, British, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Women Unionists in Northern Ireland, 1892-1960
written by Pamela McKane (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 38 page(s)
The 1910s and 1920s were tumultuous decades in Ireland. They were years of great political mobilization, violence, and change. Unionist women in Ulster contributed significantly to the Unionist movement and its constitution of Ulster as distinct from the rest of Ireland culturally, religiously, politically, and ec...
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written by Pamela McKane (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 38 page(s)
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The 1910s and 1920s were tumultuous decades in Ireland. They were years of great political mobilization, violence, and change. Unionist women in Ulster contributed significantly to the Unionist movement and its constitution of Ulster as distinct from the rest of Ireland culturally, religiously, politically, and economically. Contrary to dominant norms of femininity during these decades Unionist women were not merely passive, behind-the-scenes sup...
The 1910s and 1920s were tumultuous decades in Ireland. They were years of great political mobilization, violence, and change. Unionist women in Ulster contributed significantly to the Unionist movement and its constitution of Ulster as distinct from the rest of Ireland culturally, religiously, politically, and economically. Contrary to dominant norms of femininity during these decades Unionist women were not merely passive, behind-the-scenes supporters of a male-led Unionist movement. They were active agents in their own right, asserting their place in the Northern Ireland which was established through the discourse, norms, practices, rituals, and symbols of the UWUC and the Unionist movement, and through the speaking tours, organizing, lobbying, canvassing, and public education work undertaken on behalf of and in the name of the UWUC. Members of the UWUC drew on dominant gender norms of women as wives and mothers to mobilize Unionist women and to explain their involvement in the Unionist cause. The Belfast parliament was established in 1922 as a Unionist- and Protestant-dominated institution; however, such gender norms were also used to justify the exclusion of Unionist women from party political life in Northern Ireland. The Belfast parliament, therefore, was also a male-dominated institution, and Northern Ireland a patriarchal society in which women’s contributions to the Unionist movement were marginalized.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Pamela McKane
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Empire and Family Life, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Support for Imperialism, British, Irish, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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