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Long Island Women:
Activists and Innovators
Edited by Natalie A. Naylor and Maureen O. Murphy
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Long Island Women:
Activists and Innovators is the first book to focus on the
history of Long Island women. Women have made important contributions, although
they have been nearly invisible in most Long Island histories. The scope is
broad, extending from the seventeenth century to the recent past and from Brooklyn
to the East End. Some of the articles concentrate on famous women who lived
and worked on Long Island. Others focus on women with local reputations who
challenged boundaries, broadened domestic and traditional roles, met social
needs and services, created and sustained community organizations, expanded
women's work, and engaged in feminist activism. The essays indicate how women's
roles have expanded over the years since the seventeenth century and focus on
some of the many significant contributions of Long Island women to their families,
communities, and the wider society.
Publication and Ordering
Information:
Long Island Women is published by Empire State Books under the auspices
of the Hofstra University and the Long Island Studies Institute. It is 366 pages
with many illustrations and an index. Priced at $38 and $20, it is available
in hardcover (ISBN 1-55787-151-5) and paperback editions (ISBN 1-55787-150-7,
LC 98-70015). Individuals may order from Heart of the Lakes Publishing, PO Box
299, Interlaken, NY 14847-0299 (e-mail HLPbooks@aol.com,
phone 607-532-4204, fax 607-532-4684); or the Suffolk County Historical Society,
300 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901 (631-727- 2881, fax 631-727-3467,
histsoc@suffolk.lib.ny.us). Libraries,
schools, and bookstores can order from the Long Island Studies Institute, Hofstra
University West Campus, 619 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, NY 11549, (516) 463-6411,
fax (516) 463-6441, e-mail LISI@Hofstra.edu
.
Long Island Women is available for purchase at the Weathervane Shop of
the Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead, (email: histsoc@suffolk.lib.ny.us),
phone: (631) 727-2881, fax: (631) 727-3467. For additional information, contact
the Institute, (516) 463-6411, (fax (516) 463-6441), e-mail LISI@Hofstra.edu
.
Contents:
1. Introduction, by Natalie A. Naylor
Women Challenging Boundaries:
2. The Wright Sisters: Seventeenth-Century
Quaker Activists, by Mildred Murphy DeRiggi
3. The Role of Algonquian Women in Land Transactions on Eastern Long Island,
1639-1859, by John A. Strong
4. First Women in Aviation, by Joanne Lynn Harvey
5. The Life and Times of Harriet Quimby, by Henry M. Holden
6. "One of Ours": The World of Jeannette Edwards Rattray, by Lucinda A. Mayo
Broadening
Domestic and Traditional Roles:
7. Women's Lives at the
William Floyd Estate and the Poosepatuck Indian Reservation,1800 Present, by
Bernice Forrest Guillaume
8. "To Blush Unseen": A View of Nineteenth-Century Women, by Kathryn Curran
9. Long Island Women and Benevolence: Changing Images of Women's Place, 1880-1920,
by Alice Ross
10. The Forebears Were Women: Three Smith Sisters, by Norma A. Cohen
Meeting
Social Needs and Services:
11. Mother de Chantal Keating,
CSJ: A "Notable, Noble American," by Sister Edna McKeever, CSJ
12. Gender and Race Consciousness: Verina Morton-Jones Inspires a Settlement
House in Suburbia, by Floris Barnett Cash
13.
Women of Faith: The Spiritual Legacy of the Founders of St. Francis Hospital,
by Sister Lois Van Delft, F.M.M.
14. Homeless in Huntington: Struggling Mothers and Their Care Givers, by Cynthia
J. Bogard
Creating
and Sustaining Community Organizations:
15. The Ladies' Village Improvement
Society: A Century of Force in East Hampton, by Eunice Juckett Meeker
16. Civic-Minded Women: The Sayville Village Improvement Society, by Norma
White
17. Abigail Eliza Leonard: Quiet Innovator, by Dorothy B. Ruettgers
18. Kate Mason Hofstra and Alicia Patterson: Founding and Building Hofstra University,
by Geri Solomon
19. Energizer and Actualizer: The Nassau County League of Women Voters, by Arlene
B. Soifer
Expanding
Women's Work:
20. Candace Thurber Wheeler
and the New York Exchange for Woman's Work, by Martha Kreisel
21. Christine Frederick: Barometer of Conflict, by Janice Williams Rutherford
22. Long Island Women Go to War: Local Newspapers Report on the Changing Roles
of Women, 1941-1946, by Alan Singer; and The Janes Who Made the Planes,
by Christine Kleinegger
23. Kathryn Dudek: Breaking Barriers in the World of Sports Photojournalism,
by Linda Keller
Achieving
National Fame:
24. Last Stop Plandome: Frances
Hodgson Burnett, by Bea Tusiani
25. Marianne Moore and the Brooklyn Dodgers, by Joseph Dorinson
26. Alicia Patterson and the Shape of Long Island, by Robert F. Keeler
27. Barbara McClintock: A Long Island Scientist, by Janice Koch
28. Lee Krasner, "From There to Here," by Helen A. Harrison
Engaging
in Feminist Activism:
29. Reflections on Long Island
Women, by Marilyn Goldstein
30. On the Frontiers of Feminism: The Life and Vision of Letty Cottin Pogrebin,
by Linda F. Burghardt
31. Significant Moments in the Evolution of the Southern Suffolk NOW Chapters,
by Linda Lane-Weber
32. Women on the Job: Long Island's Grassroots Action for Pay Equity, by Charlotte
M. Shapiro
Appendices:
33. Long Island's Nationally
Notable Women, by Natalie A. Naylor
34. Bibliography on Long Island Women, by Natalie A. Naylor
Excerpts from Reviews:
"Now there is a book that places women in the forefront of Long Island's historical
development. . . . Organized chronologically, this collection of essays presents
a compelling account of the historical impact of well-known and unsung heroines,
past and present. . . .
"This book makes an important contribution to women's history and the variety
of roles that women have played in the Island's long and complicated history.
By shedding light both on individuals and on organizations created by women,
Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators brings a neglected subject
from the backwater on to the center stage."--Elizabeth Ewen, SUNY College at
Old Westbury, Long Island Historical Journal 11 (Fall 1999): 106, 109.
"The brief essays
in this volume introduce thirty-two women who lived or worked on Long Island,
New York. Organized chronologically within seven sections, the essays cover
diverse topics. . . . As the editors note, this volume makes a 'significant
beginning' in the recovery of Long Island history that should encourage further
scholarship not only on this area but also on local histories in general." --
Marilyn E. Hegarty, Journal of Women's History, Winter 2000, p. 223.
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