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Professional pursuits : women and the American arts and crafts movement
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Professional pursuits : women and the American arts and crafts movement

Author: Catherine W Zipf
Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"The Victorian era provided few opportunities for women in the professional world. The American Arts and Crafts movement, which began in the late nineteenth century to promote handcraftsmanship over mass production, was a major factor in changing the status of women as professional workers. In Professional Pursuits, Catherine Zipf examines the participation of women in this significant design movement and the role  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine W Zipf
ISBN: 9781572336018 1572336013
OCLC Number: 82673652
Description: x, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: opportunities for women --
Woman as architect, Case study: the career of Hazel Wood Waterman --
Woman as inventor, Case study: Mary Louise McLaughlin and ceramic technology --
Woman as executive, Case study: businesswoman Candace Thurber Wheeler --
Woman as editor, Case study: Adelaide Alsop Robineau and the publication of Keramic Studio --
Women and the American arts and crafts movement, Case study: The craftsman, by Irene Sargent --
Conclusion.
Responsibility: Catherine W. Zipf.
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"The Victorian era provided few opportunities for women in the professional world. The American Arts and Crafts movement, which began in the late nineteenth century to promote handcraftsmanship over mass production, was a major factor in changing the status of women as professional workers. In Professional Pursuits, Catherine Zipf examines the participation of women in this significant design movement and the role they played in revolutionizing the position of women in the professional world. It also shows how, in turn, the Arts and Crafts movement set the stage for social and political change in future years." "Zipf focuses on five gifted women in various parts of the country. In San Diego, Hazel Wood Waterman parlayed her Arts and Crafts training into a career in architecture. Cincinnati's Mary Louise McLaughlin expanded on her interest in Arts and Crafts pottery by inventing new ceramic technology. New York's Candace Wheeler established four businesses that used Arts and Crafts production to help other women earn a living. In Syracuse, both Adelaide Alsop Robineau and Irene Sargent were responsible for disseminating Arts and Crafts-related information through the movement's publications. Each woman's story is different, but each played an important part in the creation of professional opportunities for women in a male-dominated society." "Professional Pursuits will be of interest to scholars and students of material culture and of the Arts and Crafts movement. More importantly it chronicles a very significant, little-understood aspect of the development of Victorian capitalism: the integration of women into the professional workforce."--BOOK JACKET.

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