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This Land is Herland Book Signing

Editors of the newly released book from the University of Oklahoma Press, This Land is Herland, Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin will be at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid for a special program where they will discuss the project and their research with Museum Director Jake Krumwiede. Copies of the book, This Land is Herland, will be available to purchase in the museum store, and signed by the editors.
This event is free and open to the public.
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.
Patricia Loughlin is Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott, named the Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Since well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This Land Is Herland brings together the stories of thirteen women activists and explores their varied experiences from the territorial period to the present. Organized chronologically, the essays discuss Progressive reformer Kate Barnard, educator and civil rights leader Clara Luper, and Comanche leader and activist LaDonna Harris, as well as lesser-known individuals such as Cherokee historian and educator Rachel Caroline Eaton, entrepreneur and NAACP organizer California M. Taylor, and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) champion Wanda Jo Peltier Stapleton.
Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, the collection connects Oklahoma women’s individual and collective endeavors to the larger themes of intersectionality, suffrage, politics, motherhood, and civil rights in the American West and the United States. The historians explore how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and political power shaped—and were shaped by—these women’s efforts to improve their local, state, and national communities.
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.

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Date

Aug 28 2021
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Time

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
507 S 4th St (267.47 mi) Enid, Oklahoma 73701
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Organizer

Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
Phone
(580) 237-1907
Website
http://Highlights info row image www.csrhc.wpengine.com

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