Women in Indiana
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Memories of Hoosier Homemakers Series - Feeding Our Families
Eleanor Arnold, ed.
Homemakers remember what it was like to feed their families in rural America. Tales of threshing dinners and butchering days, of gardening and canning, and of milking cows and churning butter.
paper 153 pp. 1983/ISBN 0-253-20805-X/$14.95
Order No. 2136
Memories of Hoosier Homemakers Series - Buggies and Bad Times
cloth 172 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-12991-5/$20.00
Order No. 2157
paper 172 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-20804-1/$12.95
Order No. 2158
Memories of Hoosier Homemakers Series - Girlhood Days
cloth 202 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-12989-3/$22.50
Order No. 2194
paper 202 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-20802-5/$12.95
Order No. 2195
Voices of American Homemakers
Eleanor Arnold, ed.
Oral histories by women, in the 1890 to 1940 era, who were able to create loving and pleasant homes, be good neighbors, support their communities, and rear fine families.
cloth 287 pp. 1985/ISBN 0-253-12096-9/$29.95
Order No. 2153
Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper
Robert G. Barrows
Voluntary associations, social welfare, child welfare, city planning and zoning, and a variety of public health efforts were outlets for this intelligent and creative woman.
cloth 229 pp. 2000/0-253-33774-7 /$24.95
Order No. 2241
The Country Contributor: The Life and Times of Juliet V. Strauss
Ray E. Boomhower
The story of a woman from little Rockville who became one of America's best-loved columnists for the Ladies' Home Journal.
cloth 160 pp. 1998/ISBN 1-57860-064-2/$24.95
Order No. 3113
Fighting for Equality: A Life of May Wright Sewall
Ray E. Boomhower
A biography aimed at young readers, Fighting for Equality showcases Sewall's important contributions to the history of Indianapolis, Indiana, the United States, and the world. A woman who had the "organizing touch," Sewall helped to establish such Indianapolis institutions as the Girls' Classical School, the Indianapolis Woman's Club, the Contemporary Club, the Art Association of Indianapolis (today known as the Indianapolis Museum of Art), and the Indianapolis Propylaeum.
cloth160 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-0-87195-253-0/$17.95
Order No. "Sewall"
An Army in Skirts
Frances DeBra Brown
More than 150,000 women served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in World War II. Although the majority of WACs were assigned to duties in the United States, several thousand received overseas assignments.One of these women was Frances DeBra Brown from Danville, Indiana, who worked as a draftsman at American headquarters in London and Paris. An Army in Skirts: The World War II Letters of Frances DeBra, recently released by the IHS Press, contains the letters that Frances wrote to her family and letters from family and friends to Frances. The letters vividly detail her World War II service, beginning with basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. After an assignment at an army air field in Marianna, Florida, where DeBra worked on the post newsletter, she was shipped overseas on the RMS Queen Mary. While in London she worked through buzz bomb and V-2 rocket attacks, slept in shelters fully clothed, and made the acquaintance of a young English woman and her family. Arriving in Paris two weeks after the city’s liberation, Frances witnessed the city’s devastation and the effects of war on the populace. During her stay in Paris she attended classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and received a marriage proposal.
cloth 274 pp 2008 / ISBN 978-0-87195-264-6 / $27.95
Order No. 2697
Carole Lombard: The Hoosier Tornado
Wes D. Gehring
For millions of movie fans during the 1930s, an actress from Fort Wayne personified the madcap adventures of their favorite form of screen comedy—screwball. She was nicknamed "The Hoosier Tornado" for her energetic personality.
cloth 284 pp. 2003/ISBN 0-87195-167-3/$19.95
Order No. 2426
Whispers to Shouts: Indiana Women Who Create Art
Indiana State Museum
Catalog for the Indiana State Museum 2005 exhibit of the same name. The book lists all of the artists, including photographs of many, and their art.
paper 56 pp. 2005/ISBN 0-972879-3-5/$12.95
Order No. 2530
Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist
Judith Reick Long
One of the best known of Indiana authors, a self-trained early nature photographer, and conservationist.
cloth 286 pp. 1990/ISBN 0-87195-052-9/$19.95
Order No. 2004
19 Stars of Indiana - Exceptional Hoosier Women
Michael S. Maurer
The 19 outstanding contemporary Hoosier women profiled by Michael S. Maurer—one for each star in the Indiana state flag—are leaders and pioneers who have excelled in a variety of pursuits, including law, business, philanthropy, government, medicine, music, art, athletics, religion, and education. Among the inspiring life stories are those of the first woman named chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Indiana, the first to establish a Holocaust museum in the state, and the first woman elected Indiana's lieutenant governor. Maurer also introduces international golf and billiards champions, opera singers, a rabbi, the founders of Vera Bradley Designs and For Bare Feet, and others. Many of these women led heart-pounding lives. All worked hard, and with zeal, to achieve their dreams. Indiana women of every generation will enjoy and appreciate their stories.
cloth 219 pp. 2009 / ISBN 978-0-253-35329-0 / $24.95
Order No. 2741f
Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana’s Historical Women Artists
Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss
The authors include a biographical dictionary detailing the lives of one hundred of the state’s historical women artist, and they single out nearly forty of them for further examination in detailed essays. While this first-of-a-kind book focuses on Indiana women specifically, its stories offer excellent insights into the culture and values of the greater Midwest, and the nation at large, in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century.
cloth 406 pp.2004/ISBN 0-87195-177-0/$29.95
Order No. 2492
Matter Mind Spirit
Jean Robertson
The work of 12 contemporary Indiana women artists whose works blend physical, intellectual, and emotional intensity. Featured are 16 black and white illustrations and 23 color plates.
paper 60 pp. 1999/ISBN 0-253-21322-3/$19.95
Order No. 2221
Belief in Providence: a Life of Saint Theodora Guerin
Julie Young
A Belief in Providence: A Life of Saint Theodora Guerin, a youth biography, explores the life of the woman who would become Indiana's first saint.
cloth 198 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-0-87195-255-4/$17.95
Order No. 2640
Issues of The Indiana Historian - Women in Indiana
Paper/ISSN 1071-3301/$1.00 (1-19 copies); $.30 (20 or more copies)
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Married women's property rights and woman suffrage in nineteenth-century Indiana. 12 pp. 1993/Order No. 7016
These two magazines describe the life and career of Madam Walker, a prominent black business woman in Indianapolis in the early 1900s. 12 pp. 1992/Order No. 7006 Part 1/Order No. 7007 Part 2
Porter was a self-trained writer, naturalist, and photographer. State Historic Sites memorialize her life and accomplishments. 16 pp. 1996
Women of Indiana and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. Details Indiana women's interests and achievements. 16 pp. 1994/Order No. 7024
On the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Girl Scouts; focuses on the importance of studying and documenting youth organizations. 16 pp. 1997/Order No. 7039
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