Gentle Warriors

Gentle Warriors PDF Author: Barbara Stuhler
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873513180
Category : Suffragists
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Get Book Here

Book Description
Author is an alumna of Evanston Township High School, class of 1941.

Gentle Warriors

Gentle Warriors PDF Author: Barbara Stuhler
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873513180
Category : Suffragists
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Get Book Here

Book Description
Author is an alumna of Evanston Township High School, class of 1941.

The Fire She Fights

The Fire She Fights PDF Author: Tracy Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781634894760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Get Book Here

Book Description
Ruby, Dana, Brazil, and Jessie--choose the extraordinary when they join the Minneapolis Fire Department. Prepared to fight literal fires, none of them anticipates the threats lurking in the dark corners of the firehouse. Is it better to secure her own place in a flawed system or fight for a better system for everyone?

Women of Mayo Clinic

Women of Mayo Clinic PDF Author: Virginia M Wright-Peterson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 1681340011
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Get Book Here

Book Description
The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium therapy and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects of patient care, education, and research. While these women contributed to the clinic’s origins and success, their roles have not been widely celebrated—until now. Women of Mayo Clinic traces those early days from the perspectives of more than forty women—nurses, librarians, social workers, mothers, sisters, and wives—who were instrumental in the world-renowned medical center’s development. Mother Alfred Moes persuaded Dr. William Worrall Mayo to take on the hospital project. Edith Graham was the first professionally trained nurse to work at the practice. Alice Magaw developed a national reputation administering anesthesia in the operating rooms there. Maud Mellish Wilson established the library and burnished the clinic’s standing through widely distributed publications about its innovations. Virginia Wright-Peterson tells the stories of these and other talented, dedicated pioneers through institutional records and clippings from the period, introducing a welcome new perspective on the history of both Mayo Clinic and women in medicine.

Sisterhood of War

Sisterhood of War PDF Author: Kim Heikkila
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Get Book Here

Book Description
Fifteen Minnesota nurses spent a year caring for the casualties of a divisive war, only to come home and descend into isolated silence. To heal themselves, they banded together as veterans.

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

The Lager Queen of Minnesota PDF Author: J. Ryan Stradal
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399563075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Get Book Here

Book Description
A National Bestseller! “The perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day.” —Washington Post “[A] charmer of a tale. . . Warm, witty and--like any good craft beer--complex, the saga delivers a subtly feminist and wholly life-affirming message.” —People Magazine A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living. So she can't help wondering what her life would have been like with even a portion of the farm money her sister kept for herself. With the proceeds from the farm, Helen builds one of the most successful light breweries in the country, and makes their company motto ubiquitous: "Drink lots. It's Blotz." Where Edith has a heart as big as Minnesota, Helen's is as rigid as a steel keg. Yet one day, Helen will find she needs some help herself, and she could find a potential savior close to home. . . if it's not too late. Meanwhile, Edith's granddaughter, Diana, grows up knowing that the real world requires a tougher constitution than her grandmother possesses. She earns a shot at learning the IPA business from the ground up--will that change their fortunes forever, and perhaps reunite her splintered family? Here we meet a cast of lovable, funny, quintessentially American characters eager to make their mark in a world that's often stacked against them. In this deeply affecting family saga, resolution can take generations, but when it finally comes, we're surprised, moved, and delighted.

To Sing Along the Way

To Sing Along the Way PDF Author: Joyce Sutphen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Get Book Here

Book Description
The first historical and contemporary anthology of Minnesota women poets, this anthology is edited by three prize-winning poets. Poems included range from the earliest poetry in Minnesota--oral song-poems of Ojibwe women--through the sounds and rhythms of early-twentieth-century formalism and contemporary free verse. Arranged chronologically, these disparate poems are connected by the common thread of universal themes and reflect Minnesota's diversity of women's voices. Among the more than one hundred contributors are Harriet Bishop, Candace Black, Frances Densmore, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Mary Eastman, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, and Patricia Hampl. Contributors' biographies and suggestions for further reading are included.

The Invention of Women

The Invention of Women PDF Author: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452903255
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Get Book Here

Book Description
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.

Daybreak Woman

Daybreak Woman PDF Author: Jane Lamm Carroll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681341668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Get Book Here

Book Description
A woman's remarkable life provides a new perspective on a century of turbulent change.

A Woman's War, Too

A Woman's War, Too PDF Author: Virginia M. Wright-Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681341521
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
"During World War II, women in Minnesota-like women across the country-made bold, unconventional, and important contributions to the war effort. They enlisted in all branches of the military and worked for the military as civilians. They labored in factories, mines, and shipyards. They were also tireless peace activists, and they worked to relocate interned Japanese American citizens and European refugees. They served as cryptologists, journalists, pilots, riveters, factory workers, nurses, entertainers, and spies. This rich chronological account relates dramatic stories of women discovering their own potential in a time of national need, surprising themselves and others-and setting the roots of second-wave feminism."--

Making Marriage

Making Marriage PDF Author: Catherine J. Denial
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873519078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Get Book Here

Book Description
Dakota, Ojibwe, and mixed-race communities resisted the early American version of marriage, in which women give up all rights to civic life.