“Deliver Me from the Brainy Woman”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Sueyoshi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Japanese Women ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
American Women ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Traditional Femininity ◽  
The City

This chapter links the rise of San Francisco’s modern woman to the inception of geisha imagery in leisure culture. As women in the city grew more athletic and assertive, moral conservatives blamed higher rates of marital failure on the modern woman who refused to fulfill appropriate women’s roles. Images of obedient, self-sacrificing, petite Japanese geishas flooded leisure culture just as American women seemed to be abandoning more “traditional femininity.” The romanticized representations would neither reflect realities of Japanese women nor benefit those Japanese living in San Francisco even as they appeared complimentary in its depictions of Japanese traditions. The discursive embrace of Japanese femininity would solely be for the pleasure and enrichment of whites in their exploration of appropriate middle-class womanhood.

Beyond the Canon

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Merchant
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
History Of ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
The City

This chapter examines traditional music as a means to construct a cohesive pre-Soviet past in Uzbekistan. Traditional music encompasses three maqom traditions with roots in cities that currently exist within the borders of Uzbekistan: Xorazm maqom, Shashmaqom, and Tashkent-Ferghana maqom. The chapter first considers the history of the construction of the canon of traditional music in Uzbek institutions before discussing traditional music and maqom's links to nationalism in the city of Tashkent. It then looks at women's roles performing the great works in the maqom tradition, along with two masters of this tradition, Yunus Rajabi and Munojat Yulchieva. It also explores the role of maqom in the shift in cultural capital in Uzbekistan after independence. The chapter concludes with an assessment of dutar ensembles as an area of contested gender identity that is very much context dependent.

Mothers as Experts, 1965–1967

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Frazier
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Exposure ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
American Women ◽  
Vietnamese Women ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

In an era when red-baiting still occurred, American women’s peace organizations often represented themselves as mothers concerned for the fates of their children when engaging in antiwar activism. This depiction mirrored that of Vietnamese women who also described themselves as mothers. Thus, the portrayal of women on both sides of the U.S. war in Viet Nam as first and foremost mothers was a mutual endeavor. Even so, Vietnamese women challenged American women’s version of motherhood as inherently peaceful and apolitical by promoting women's entrance into the military and politics. As some American women actively ignored stories of women's violence, others developed new perspectives on women's roles because of their repeated exposure to these alternative versions of motherhood.

Gender and Religion in American Culture, 1870-1930

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-157
Author(s):  
David G. Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
American History ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Women’S Roles

Since the early 1980's, advances in the study of gender in American history have come primarily through an unmasking of the assumptions of earlier studies. Some have questioned the explanatory power of the field's dominant interpretive paradigm, that of “women's sphere,” because this theoretical lens has often led historians to mistake what was said by and about women for their actual historical experience. Others have laid bare the earlier scholarship's assumption of universal gender definitions that do not take into account differences in women's roles based on race, class, or region. Additionally, several historians have begun to explore the influence of gender relations on the lives of men. As a result, we are beginning to get a picture of gender in American history that goes beyond the “women's sphere” experience of white, middle-class, northeastern women.

Scrapbooks and Women’s Reading Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-241
Author(s):  
Alexis Easley
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Metropolitan University ◽  
Weekly Press ◽  
Women's Reading

In this chapter, my focus shifts from women’s roles as writers to their roles as readers and consumers of the cheap weekly press, 1820–60. I first examine scrapbooks held by John Rylands Library and the Harry Page Collection at Manchester Metropolitan University, which have much to tell us about how middle-class women read: their processes of selecting, copying, arranging, and editing printed scraps in creative ways. I first explore some of the challenges that arise when reading women’s scrapbooks and then demonstrate methodologies that help us begin to unpack their meanings, especially their relationship to the cheap popular press, which served both as a creative inspiration and a source of content. In the next section, I examine a type of content that was particularly ubiquitous in scrapbooks: poetry. The frequent appearance of verse in women’s albums corresponded with the proliferation of poetry in miscellaneous columns and other popular publication formats during the early and mid-Victorian periods. Finally, I examine a remarkable scrapbook from the 1850s that provides an enticing view of the broad range of periodicals and books middle-class women read—and how they used these disparate materials to imbue their leisure time with meaning.

Discriminating Sex

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Sueyoshi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexual Norms ◽  
White Writers ◽  
The City

In the late 1890s, “wide open” San Francisco, considered also a model city for race relations, appeared to be a place where men and women could configure their intimate lives in expansive and unconventional ways. Rising rates of divorce, increasing sexual independence among women, and state-condoned sex work defined the city. Yet as whites explored and enacted new norms of romance and womanhood, increasing freedoms would be less accessible for Asians in America. White writers, lyricists, illustrators, and other producers of leisure culture projected shifting norms of middle-class gender and sexuality on specifically Chinese and Japanese in newspapers, magazines, plays, and musicals. These characterizations would then conflate Chinese and Japanese, previously perceived as two separate races, into a single group. This book details how middle-class white expansion of their own gender and sexual norms marked the formation of the pan-Asian “Oriental,” a deeply sexual racialized stereotype, more than a hundred years ago.

Changing Women's Roles in Political Volunteerism and Reform of the City

Signs ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
pp. S67-S78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Gittell ◽  
Teresa Shtob
Keyword(s):  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The City

Women’s Roles in Technical Innovation

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipek Ilkkaracan ◽  
Helen Appleton
Keyword(s):  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles

‘Imagined San Francisco’: Unpacking Urban Regime Theory through Interactive Cartography

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Ocean Howell
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Digital Mapping ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Interactive Cartography

American urban historians have begun to understand that digital mapping provides a potentially powerful tool to describe political power. There are now important projects that map change in the American city along a number of dimensions, including zoning, suburbanization, commercial development, transportation infrastructure, and especially segregation. Most projects use their visual sources to illustrate the material consequences of the policies of powerful agencies and dominant planning ‘regimes.’ As useful as these projects are, they often inadvertently imbue their visualizations with an aura of inevitability, and thereby present political power as a kind of static substance–possess this and you can remake the city to serve your interests. A new project called ‘Imagined San Francisco’ is motivated by a desire to expand upon this approach, treating visual material not only to illustrate outcomes, but also to interrogate historical processes, and using maps, plans, drawings, and photographs not only to show what did happen, but also what might have happened. By enabling users to layer a series of historical urban plans–with a special emphasis on unrealized plans–‘Imagined San Francisco’ presents the city not only as a series of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power.

San Francisco's Vision for the Future: An Integrated Urban Wastewater Management Plan

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan W. Loiacono ◽  
Chu-Fei H. Ho ◽  
Natalie V. Sierra ◽  
Domènec Jolis ◽  
Carolyn Chiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Control Plant ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Urban Watershed ◽  
Aging Infrastructure ◽  
The City

The City and County of San Francisco (“City”) embarked upon a 30-year master planning process in part prompted by public concerns related to the neighbourhood impacts of the Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant (SEP). The Sewer System Master Plan, as it is called, developed a long term Integrated Urban Watershed Management Plan for the City's treatment plants and collection system. This paper focuses on the planning framework and public input to the process, particularly as it relates to proposed changes to the SEP. The resulting improvements address issues of replacing aging infrastructure, eliminating odor emissions, and visually screening the treatment plants that are situated within an urban setting. The recommended project addresses the needed repair of the existing infrastructure; and proposes that the City move towards an integrated urban watershed approach, initially through localized rainwater harvesting and opportunistic water reclamation.

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