{"product_id":"making-waves-female-activists-in-twentieth-century-florida-paperback","title":"Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Emerson Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKari Frederickson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These essays lift up the lives of outstanding Florida women who helped shape the course of 20th-century Florida.\"--James B. Crooks, University of North Florida\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida's first congresswoman, and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, to Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the first chairwoman of the Seminole Tribe, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion of the Everglades, \u003ci\u003eMaking Waves\u003c\/i\u003e examines the lives and works of women activists who made a significant impact on Florida in the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection enriches our understanding of the history of modern Florida and the role women played in it. To a degree greater than any other southern state in the 20th century, Florida experienced dramatic economic, political, social, and environmental challenges, and Florida's women were in the forefront of the great social and political responses to those challenges. These 13 essays describe the contributions made by women in urban renewal, civil liberties, civil rights, child welfare, labor unions, education, environmental protection, rural extension work, and women's liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy illuminating the involvement of the state's women in many of these fundamental issues, \u003ci\u003eMaking Waves\u003c\/i\u003e provides a long-overdue chapter in Florida history. It will also contribute to the advancement of the study of women's history by examining women's activism in a variety of contexts and illustrating how this activism was often circumscribed by class and racial bias.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A volume in the Florida History and Culture series, edited by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack E. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gulf: The Making of An American Sea\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eKari Frederickson\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 9.12 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45675643109420,"sku":"9780813027678","price":45.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0954\/5772\/files\/qT0mQXr8xJ9780813027678.webp?v=1781773740","url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/making-waves-female-activists-in-twentieth-century-florida-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}