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,
less paternalistic, and more open to partnerships.
What was said about the first edition: "[Polly] 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-defi ned 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 ways
in which women's perspectives and values, which often differ from
those of men, helped shape today's national parks."--Sylvia W.
McGrath, H-Net, the Popular Culture and the American Culture
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