RESTORING WOMEN'S HISTORY THROUGH HISTORIC PRESERVATION by Gail Lee Dubrow (Editor), Jennifer B. Goodman (Editor) ( 9780801870521 )

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RESTORING WOMEN'S HISTORY THROUGH HISTORIC PRESERVATION

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Gail Lee Dubrow (Editor), Jennifer B. Goodman (Editor)

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0801870526

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9780801870521

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Publisher:

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 December, 2002

Series:

Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design

Pages:

464

Description:

This volume reflects a growing commitment to historic preservation and shows how practitioners in both fields can benefit from an exchange of insights and create more effective public history.

Synopsis:

Historic sites are visited by millions of people every year, but most of these places perpetuate the public notion that men have been the primary agents of historical change. This book reveals that historic sites and buildings have much to tell us about women's history. It documents women's contributions to the historic preservation movement at places such as Mount Vernon and explores women's history at several existing landmarks such as historic homes, as wells as in a wider array of cultural landscapes ranging from nurses' residences in Montreal to prostitutes' quarters in Los Angeles. The book includes essays on six exemplary projects that have advanced the integration of women's history into historic preservation and closes with three perspectives on preservation policy and practice.National in scope but applicable in any locality, Restoring Women's History through Historic Preservation combines the most important recently published information with the best new research and covers many national, state, and local initiatives of the past decade. It collects in one volume the seminal work of twenty academic historians, preservationists, and professionals at parks and monuments throughout the country who examine practical ways to represent women's history through historic preservation programs.Over the past several decades, work in the areas of women's history and historic preservation has done much to change not only how we regard history but also how we might broaden the very notion of what we consider historical. This volume reflects a growing commitment to historic preservation and shows how practitioners in both fields can benefit from an exchange of insights and create more effective public history.

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10 Line drawings, black and white; 107 Halftones, black and white

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Society of Architectural Historians Antoinette Forrester Downing

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