Anne Firor Scott (1921–2019)

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

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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, toon meer 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) toon minder

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

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Making the Invisible Woman Visible (1984) 19 exemplaren

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

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

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

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

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

Women & Men: Changing Roles Relationships and Perceptions 1 exemplaar

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

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Geboortedatum: 1921-04-24
Overlijdensdatum: 2019-02-06
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Montezuma, Georgia, USA
Plaats van overlijden: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Woonplaatsen: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Opleiding: University of Georgia (AB | 1941)
Northwestern University (MA | 1944)
Radcliffe College (PhD | 1949)
Beroepen: professor of history
Organisaties: 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… door 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.… (meer)

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