Notable Women of Portland
Published In
Images of America
ISBN
9781467125055
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
6-5-2017
Abstract
The story of Portland, Oregon, like much of history, has usually been told with a focus on male leaders. This book offers a reframing of Portland’s history--starting from 10,000 years of Native American women, to pioneer women, to women of the Progressive Era, WWI, WWII, post-war women, and chapters on Women in the Arts and Women in Politics. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier, including Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette; pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger; doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair; artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White; suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond, and Eva Emery Dye; lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard; Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee; politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter; and authors Frances Fuller Victor, Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Ursula Le Guin, and Jean Auel. These women, along with groups of women such as “Wendy the Welders,” made Portland what it is today.
Contents: 1. Native American and Pioneer Women: Pre-1851 to 1870s 2. Progressive Era Women: 1870s to 1920s 3. Women of World War I and World War II: 1914 to 1945 4. Postwar to Contemporary Women: 1945 to Present 5. Women in the Arts: 1890s to Present 6. Women in Politics: 1920s to Present
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Citation Details
Prince, T. J., & Schaffer, Z. J. (2017). Notable Women of Portland. Arcadia Publishing.
Description
Tracy J. Prince, PhD, scholar-in-residence at Portland State University, is the author of Portland’s Goose Hollow and Culture Wars in British Literature and coauthor of Portland’s Slabtown.