Travels with feminist historical geography

Morin, Karen M.; Domosh, Mona

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“…124 And I have tried to heed the call from Mona Domosh and Karen Morin who challenge feminist historical geographers to lend understanding of how all historical subjects are gendered and how the historical understanding of difference is necessary for contemporary social change. 125 Soon the city of Edmond, Oklahoma will unveil a new piece of public art, commemorating one of its earliest white 'pioneers' not for what she did, but for what she did not do, and thereby celebrating her life according to long-established gendered stereotypes of western women. Nannita Daisey made history in the 19th century by jumping from a moving train to claim Native American land in Oklahoma's first land run, by later claiming a townsite lot, and by still later helping other white women to do the same.…”

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“…20 In Edmond, Oklahoma, the effort to erect a statue depicting Nannita Daisey's supposed exploits is still today ongoing; the place of the past in the present is not yet secure. This article, built on archival research in local, regional, and national newspapers as well as local historical archives and locally published town histories, on correspondence and interviews with Edmond historians and those involved in the statue, as well as site visits in and around Edmond, represents one effort to engage such processes of memorialization as they occur, and to, following the advice of Domosh and Morin, 21 bring understandings of gender (and difference more broadly) further to the fore in historical geography. In the final section of this article, then, I explore the implications of what I understand as a gendered spatial framework for understanding and creating social memory in the US West.…”

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`Thus I salute the Kentucky Daisey's claim': gender, social memory, and the mythic West at a proposed Oklahoma monument

DeLyser

2008

cultural geographies

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On 22 April 1889, at the beginning of the first Oklahoma land run when the US federal government allowed nonIndian settlers to claim what had been Native American lands, Nannita R.H. Daisey entered the newly opened territory by train to become one of the very first women to stake a quarter-section land claim, on land today part of Edmond. According to local lore, Daisy leapt from the cowcatcher of the train to stake her claim, removing her petticoat to mark the spot. Over 100 years later Edmond has proposed a bronze monument to Daisey, petticoat flying, riding on the cowcatcher, in an effort both to attract tourists with public art, and to recognize women's contributions to Oklahoma settlement. On the surface this seems a laudable attempt to re-inscribe women's lives in the history of the American West, the social memories of Oklahomans, and the landscape of contemporary Edmond -except that the story about the cowcatcher and the petticoat, though passed down in local lore for more than 100 years, is false. And that, in turn, provides feminist historical geographers with an opportunity to examine the canonization of an exaggerated version of an already heroicized tale of Euro-American conquest, and what that implies for the representation of women in the American West. In this article, in an effort to improve upon decades of superficial scholarship, and in the face of the proposed monument's mis-portrayal, I attempt to detail Daisey's biography and describe her actual deeds. But, since the lives of prominent westerners are often difficult to disentangle from the powerful romanticizing influence of the mythic West on themselves and on their representations, my attempt itself raises issues about the study and representation of westerners in the US as the article explores ways that western women have been represented, the role of a monument as the landscape representation of a western woman, and the specific gendered spatial framework for the creation of contemporary social memory that Nannita Daisey's monument and legendary tale present.

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`Thus I salute the Kentucky Daisey's claim': gender, social memory, and the mythic West at a proposed Oklahoma monument

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2008

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“…In 1988, Gillian Rose and Miles Ogborn expressed concern that ‘the neglect of gender as a major social structure meant that historical geography [was] propagating an inaccurate understanding of the past’ (Rose & Ogborn, , p. 405). Since then, historical geography has had a tangible political ‘edge’ (Cameron, , p. 99) through major interventions in the sub‐discipline that engaged with the politics of gender (see in particular, Morin & Berg, ; Domosh & Morin, ). The discipline of Geography had long been guilty of what Rossiter () has called the ‘Matilda’ effect.…”

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Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

Moore

2018

Geography Compass

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It is thirty years since the first call to engage with gender as an analytical category was made in the sub‐discipline of Historical Geography. Significant advances in scholarship have been made in this time, particularly the re‐situation of women in the history of Geography as a subject. This paper looks to the next thirty years in Historical Geography and asks how the sub‐discipline can retain and develop its critical political edge. In the 2017 Women's Marches protestors dressed as suffragettes from the early twentieth century and proclaimed that little had changed in the fight for women's rights. Taking this ‘Victorian present’ as a starting point, this paper explores ways to connect Historical Geography to the gender politics of the present. The paper argues that the sub‐discipline has the methodological tools to use the past as a form of female power to engage with the inequalities that women still face. A sketch of a feminist historical geography of the present is provided using emancipatory and participatory research tools.

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“…These exhibitions were run and organised by local municipal authorities, gas and electricity departments, local smoke abatement societies, and more latterly by the National Society for Clean Air. Reflecting on the records of these organisations, 2 analysis seeks to understand the historical practices through which urban female subjectivities were being recast in early twentieth-century Britain (for more on the application of feminist historical geographies, see Domosh and Morin 2003;Morin and Berry 1999 Household technologies and the geographies of the home…”

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Domesticating technological myth: gender, exhibition spaces and the clean air movement in the UK

Whitehead

2008

Social & Cultural Geography

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Social & Cultural Geography Volume 9, Issue 6, 2008 Special Issue: Spaces of technology/technologised spacesThis paper explores the relation between technologies and the reconfiguration of gender relations in the British home. Drawing on Haraway's concept of technological myth, and Barthes' reflections on the modern myth-making process, analysis considers how the promotion and animation of new smokeless technologies in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain was under-girded by a reconstituted vision of the British home and the woman's place within it. In part, smokeless technologies promised the liberation of housewives from the ?drudgery? of domestic labour. The myths associated with smokeless technologies were, however, also suggestive of a more open sense of the home, within which female citizens could combine a concern with the domestic needs of the family with the broader moral reform of the city as a whole. Through an analysis of various smoke abatement exhibitions, which were convened throughout the UK during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this paper explores how smokeless technologies were braided into a new mythical geography of the British home. While at one level, this new home promised a scientifically liberated domestic sphere and a more publicly engaged female citizenry, it ultimately served to restructure and reassert the British woman's role within the modern household. Analysis focuses specifically upon the exhibit materials and popular press accounts associated with key smoke abatement exhibitions in the UK.Peer reviewe

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Travels with feminist historical geography

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

`Thus I salute the Kentucky Daisey's claim': gender, social memory, and the mythic West at a proposed Oklahoma monument

`Thus I salute the Kentucky Daisey's claim': gender, social memory, and the mythic West at a proposed Oklahoma monument

Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

Domesticating technological myth: gender, exhibition spaces and the clean air movement in the UK

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