Genealogy Journey's Podcast #27: Women's History Month

Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. https://flic.kr/p/4jyDCK

It's the last week of Women's History Month. Let's talk about women and their roles in society.

REFERENCES

Women's History Month bill


History of Women's History Month:
National Women's History Project 
Wikipedia - Women's History Month
Women's History Month

Joseph Campbell’s Works on Culture and Women’s Roles:

Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell and His Life and Work, Novato, CA: New World Library, 1990.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd ed., New York: Bollingen Foundation, Inc., 1968, 1973.

Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By, New York: Penguin Books, Viking Press, 1972.

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, New York: Anchor Books, Random House, 1988, 1991.

Joseph Campbell, Transformation of Myth through Time, New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

Women & Work:

Sheridan Harvey, “Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II,” Journeys & Crossings: Library of Congress, 24 June 2005.

Ann-Marie Imbornoni, “Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.: History of the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1848-1920,” Infoplease.

Ann-Marie Imbornoni, “Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.: Timeline of Key Events in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1921-1979,” Infoplease.

Marc McCutcheon, Everyday Life in the 1800s: A Guide for Writers, Students & Historians, Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1993.

Catherine Peck (Ed.), QPB Treasury of North American Folktales, New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998

Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, New York: William Morrow, 2016.


Dale Taylor, Everyday Life in Colonial America: From 1607-1783, Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1997.

Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife, New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

Pioneer Women:

LeRoy R. & Ann W. Hafen (Eds.), Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, Lincoln NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1954,1998).

Elizabeth Margo, Women of the Gold Rush, New York: Indian Head Books, 1955, 1992)

Merrill J. Mattes (Ed.), Platte River Road Narratives, Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988.

Rick Steber, Pioneers: Tales of the West, Vol. II, Prineville, OR: Bonanza Pub., 1993