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Joan Jensen is emerita professor of history at New Mexico
State University, where she was also Director of the Women's Studies
Program, from 1989-92. Her Ph.D. in history is from UCLA, and she
earned an M.A. in Art History from New Mexico State. She has twelve
books published, most recently One Foot on the Rockies: Women
and Creativity in the Modern American West and Beginning
to Remember: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1920.
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Women's Expressive Culture
in the Modern
American West
October 27-31, 1998
at the University of Oklahoma
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The twentieth century West is full of work created by American
women in the performing, visual, and literary arts. Some artists,
like Georgia O'Keeffe and Isadora Duncan, achieved international
fame. Others, like Pomo basketmaker Joseppa Dick and novelist
Sui Sin Far, are just being recognized for their work years
after their death. This seminar helped explain why we have not
heard of most of the western women who created this expressive
culture, how they created and marketed their works, and who
were their audiences. Most of all, it offered a framework for
remembering and analyzing the significance of their impressive
contribution to cultural history.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
One Foot on the Rockies, Joan Jensen, University
of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Faces in the Moon, Betty Louise, OU Press, 1994.
*Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan, Atheneum, 1990.
*Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears,
Diane Glancy, Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Reading Packet
*Participants were required to read either Mean Spirit
or Pushing the Bear, but not both.
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