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Professional Pursuits - Women and the American Arts and Crafts Movement (Paperback)
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Professional Pursuits - Women and the American Arts and Crafts Movement (Paperback)
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The Victorian era provided few opportunities for women in the
professional world. The American Arts and Crafts movement, which
began in the late nineteenth century to promote handcraftsmanship
over mass production, was a major factor in changing the status of
women as professional workers. In Professional Pursuits, Catherine
Zipf examines the participation of women in this significant design
movement and the role they played in revolutionizing the position
of women in the professional world. She also shows how, in turn,
the Arts and Crafts movement set the stage for social and political
change in future years. Zipf focuses on five gifted women in
various parts of the country. In San Diego, Hazel Wood Waterman
parlayed her Arts and Crafts training into a career in
architecture. Cincinnati's Mary Louise McLaughlin expanded on her
interest in Arts and Crafts pottery by inventing new ceramic
technology. New York's Candace Wheeler established four businesses
that used Arts and Crafts production to help other women earn a
living. In Syracuse, both Adelaide Alsop Robineau and Irene Sargent
were responsible for disseminating Arts and Crafts-related
information through the movement's publications. Each woman's story
is different, but each played an important part in the creation of
professional opportunities for women in a male-dominated society.
Professional Pursuits will be of interest to scholars and students
of material culture and of the Arts and Crafts movement. More
importantly, it chronicles a very significant, little-understood
aspect of the development of Victorian capitalism: the integration
of women into the professional workforce.
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