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National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History
Polly Welts Kaufman
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Description for National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History
Paperback. Revisits the activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and examines how far the inclusion of career women in the Park Service has progressed. This work discusses how staff can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. This reality and the acceptance of women as leaders has affected Park Service culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 42 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; RNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
A decade has passed since the publication of the first edition of ""National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History."" Polly Welts Kaufman thought it time to revisit the subject of activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and to learn how far the promise of the inclusion of career women in the Park Service hierarchy has progressed. Kaufman discovered the staff in a national park can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. Both this new reality and the acceptance of women as leaders have affected Park Service culture, making it more collaborative, more inclusive, ... Read more
A decade has passed since the publication of the first edition of ""National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History."" Polly Welts Kaufman thought it time to revisit the subject of activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and to learn how far the promise of the inclusion of career women in the Park Service hierarchy has progressed. Kaufman discovered the staff in a national park can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. Both this new reality and the acceptance of women as leaders have affected Park Service culture, making it more collaborative, more inclusive, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826339942
SKU
V9780826339942
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Reviews for National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History
Praise for the first edition: ""Kaufman used extensive sources from women's, environmental, and national park history; she interviewed almost four hundred women... She analyzes effectively the ways in which various women dealt with the male-defined Park Service culture, contemporary patterns of service in which women are superintendents primarily in small to medium sized historic parks, problems of dual-career marriages, and ... Read more