Posts Tagged ‘African American women’
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Jennifer Tuttle
Jennifer S. Tuttle is the Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health at the University of New England (UNE) in Maine, where she directs the Maine Women Writers Collection (an archive within the UNE Library) and co-founded the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies program. She has published three books on American author Charlotte Perkins…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Shannon Frystak
Shannon Frystak, Ph.D. is a first-generation college student who went on to pursue a Masters and Ph.D. focusing predominantly on Women’s History. An award-winning writer and historian, she is Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Department of History and Geography at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania where she has taught since 2007. Her first book,…
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Shin-Kickers from History: The Griffin Sisters and Vaudeville
In the 1910s, Emma and Mabel Griffin were a well lnown vaudeville act. Performing as the Griffin Sisters, they combined comedy routines with music and dance numbers. (Mabel was the straight woman. Emma got the punchlines.) They had started working as chorus girls in variety shows in the 1890s. By the beginning of the twentieth…
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