Women in American Cartography
An Invisible Social History
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4829-8 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4829-8 (ISBN)
Major histories of cartography have largely ignored women’s contributions to mapmaking. Women in American Cartography examines the work of over fifty American women cartographers from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.
Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. Standard histories of cartography have focused on men and maps and only rarely is a woman’s name found. Judith Tyner argues that the women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.
In American Women in cartography Tyner looks at over 50 women exemplars who made maps in America and the various types of maps they made. She looks at teachers who made school atlases and taught students to make maps in the early 19th century, at pictorial mapmakers and book illustrators who created ‘popular maps’, at women who were pioneers in social mapping and persuasive mapping promoting causes like suffrage, women travelers who recorded their trips on maps and mapped unexplored places, at women who made the maps that helped win WWII, at women academics who studied and wrote on cartographic theory and taught cartography to both male and female students at colleges and universities, and women who worked in government agencies and commercial mapping companies. These women are the tip of the iceberg of the history of women in American cartography.
Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. Standard histories of cartography have focused on men and maps and only rarely is a woman’s name found. Judith Tyner argues that the women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.
In American Women in cartography Tyner looks at over 50 women exemplars who made maps in America and the various types of maps they made. She looks at teachers who made school atlases and taught students to make maps in the early 19th century, at pictorial mapmakers and book illustrators who created ‘popular maps’, at women who were pioneers in social mapping and persuasive mapping promoting causes like suffrage, women travelers who recorded their trips on maps and mapped unexplored places, at women who made the maps that helped win WWII, at women academics who studied and wrote on cartographic theory and taught cartography to both male and female students at colleges and universities, and women who worked in government agencies and commercial mapping companies. These women are the tip of the iceberg of the history of women in American cartography.
Judith Tyner is professor emerita at California State University Long Beach.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Women in the History of Cartography
Chapter One: Pedagogues and Students
Chapter Two: Activists, Persuaders, and Travelers
Chapter Three: Pictorial and Illustrative Cartographers
Chapter Four: Millie the Mapper and Maps of WWII
Chapter Five: Academic Women: Professors and Researchers
Chapter Six: Government Girls and Company Women
Conclusion
Schools with 3M Training
Cartography Dissertations and Theses by Women, 1966-1982
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 157 x 233 mm |
Gewicht | 422 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-4829-6 / 1498548296 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-4829-8 / 9781498548298 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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