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The Women Who Built Omaha : A Bold and Remarkable History / Eileen Wirth

Project Muse

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press [[2022]], [2022]

(Drucker: Baltimore, Md : Project MUSE [0000])

1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4962-3125-3 (electronic bk.)

978-1-4962-2864-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4962-3125-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4962-2864-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4962-2864-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4962-2864-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

F674.O553

305.409782/254     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Women -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- Social conditions ; Women -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- Biography ; Omaha (Neb.) -- Social conditions ; Omaha (Neb.) -- History

HISTORY / Women ; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) ; Women ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Nebraska ; Omaha ; History ; Biographies

Women's lives in pioneer Omaha -- Education -- Founding Creighton University and Duchesne -- Native American women -- Votes for Omaha women -- The "new woman" of the Gilded Age -- Prostitution in wide open Omaha -- Healthcare -- Human services -- Culture and the arts -- From World War I to World War II -- Business -- Restaurants and bakeries -- Sports -- Post-war to the women's movement -- Law -- Government -- Civil rights -- After the women's movement.

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"The Women Who Built Omaha explores the important contributions of women to Omaha while placing those contributions in the context of social history. Wirth describes the activities of local women in numerous fields from the 1850s to the modern women's movement in the 1970s, bringing to life those who have been overlooked throughout history"--