Women in American cartography : an invisible social history
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Women in American cartography : an invisible social history
Lexington Books, 2020
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Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men. A woman's name is rarely found. In Women in American Cartography, Judith Tyner argues that women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.Tyner looks at over fifty women exemplars in American cartography and their maps. She looks at teachers who made school atlases in the early nineteenth century; at pictorial mapmakers and book illustrators who created popular maps; at women who pioneered social and persuasive mapping, promoting causes such as suffrage; at women travelers who recorded their trips and mapped unexplored places; at women whose maps helped win Word War II; at women academics who studied, taught, and wrote about cartographic theory at colleges and universities; and at women who worked in government agencies and commercial mapping companies. These are just a few of the stories of women in American cartography.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Women in the History of Cartography
Chapter One: Pedagogues and Students
Chapter Two: Activists, Persuaders, and Travelers
Chapter Three: Pictorial and Illustrative Cartographers
Chapter Four: Millie the Mapper and Maps of WWII
Chapter Five: Academic Women: Professors and Researchers
Chapter Six: Government Girls and Company Women
Conclusion
Schools with 3M Training
Cartography Dissertations and Theses by Women, 1966-1982
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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