Description:
Underscoring the diversity of women's experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women's history.
Brief description:
Sarah Eppler Janda is Professor of History at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, and the author of Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller.
Review Quotes: "With a title that evokes both a quintessential American folk song and a foundational work of feminist utopian fiction, This Land is Herland centers on Oklahoma as a space of juxtapositions and contracts. Editors Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin bring together a collection of thirteen essays exploring how women in Oklahoma engaged in community and political activism. Across all sections, the writers frequently emphasize how stories of Oklahoma women have often been neglected and marginalized, as well as how the women self-fashioned identities and wielded significant political power founded in community and relationships. This is Herland is an accessible, readable collection that shines a spotlight on women's lives and work that often fall outside mainstream histories of the American West, and as such, it is a useful entry point into further research for both scholars and students."--Great Plains Quarterly