Karen J Blair

Biographic Data

ID1020832
NAMEKaren J Blair
GIVEN NAMESKaren J
FAMILY NAMEBlair
SIGNATUREBLAIR K J
AFFILIATIONSCentral Washington University
ORCID0000-0003-1390-2508
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR28
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Who seeks care after intimate partner violence in Cameroon? sociodemographic differences between a hospital and population sample of women

    Open AccessMark Yost, Karen J Blair et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Introduction Little is known regarding health care seeking behaviors of women in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Cameroon, who experience violence. The proportion of women who experienced violence enrolled in the Cameroon Trauma Registry (CTR) is lower than expected. Methods We concatenated the databases from the October 2017-December 2020 CTR and 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) into a singular database for cross-sectional stud…

  • Associations between social determinants of health and interpersonal violence-related injury in Cameroon

    Open AccessKaren J Blair, Michael de Virgilio et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Introduction Risk factors for interpersonal violence-related injury (IPVRI) in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain poorly defined. We describe associations between IPVRI and select social determinants of health (SDH) in Cameroon. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of prospective trauma registry data collected from injured patients > 15 years old between October 2017 and January 2020 at four Cameroonian hospitals. Ou…

  • PrEP Awareness, Use, Intention to Use, and Information Source Among Geosocial Networking Application Users in Mexico in 2018–2019

    Open AccessKaren J Blair, Eddy Segura et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

  • What is trauma? Qualitatively assessing stakeholder perceptions in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

    Open AccessKaren J Blair, Alexa Monroy et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    Addressing the burden of injury in low-resource settings requires development of trauma systems. This study aimed to describe perceptions of trauma in Santa Cruz, Bolivia to better inform strategies for trauma system development. In 2015-2016, we conducted 16 individual and 11 group interviews with key stakeholders involved with or exposed to trauma. A pile sorting activity showed participants pictures of injury mechanisms to explore perceptions …

  • Protecting healthcare workers in the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessKaren J Blair, Samuel Martinez-Vernaza et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2020References: 4

    A proteo dos profissionais de sade durante a pandemia da COVID-19: falta de respiradores e respostas a partir de polticas de sade na Amrica do Sul

  • J oan M arie J ohnson . Funding Feminism

    Open AccessKaren J BlairARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    As our mailboxes attest daily, social change requires financial support. But while small contributions from ordinary donors are always welcome, it is million-dollar checks that get the job done. Historian Joan Marie Johnson, in Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967, catalogues the independent-minded heiresses who bankrolled key aspects of American women’s emancipation. She focuses on the most generous i…

  • The State of Research on Pacific Northwest Women

    Karen J BlairARTICLEFrontiers A Journal of Women…2001

    The State of Research on Pacific Northwest Women Karen J. Blair (bio) I began my investigation of the scholarly literature on Pacific Northwest women's history when I moved to Seattle to teach local women's history in 1979 and immediately engaged in a search to locate secondary sources to bolster my students' and my own research. I was discouraged to learn that, compared to the American South, New England, or the Southwest, the studies in this re…

  • An Army of Women

    Karen J Blair, Michael L GoldbergARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas. By Michael Lewis Goldberg. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xii, 313 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5562-4.) Get access Karen J. Blair Karen J. Blair Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 216–217, https://doi.…

  • The Torchbearers

    Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Karen J BlairARTICLEWoman s Art Journal1996

  • The Torchbearers

    Liane Curtis, Karen J BlairARTICLEAmerican Music1996

  • The Torchbearers

    Dorothy M Brown, Karen J BlairARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America, 1890–1930. By Karen J. Blair. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xii, 259 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-31192-6.) Get access Dorothy M. Brown Dorothy M. Brown Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 280, https://doi.org/…

  • Sources on the History of Women's Magazines, 1792-1960

    Karen J Blair, Mary Ellen Zuckerman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Sources on the History of Women's Magazines, 1792–1960: An Annotated Bibliography. Comp, by Mary Ellen Zuckerman, Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature. Comp, by Gayle V. Fischer and Victorian American Women, 1840–1880: An Annotated Bibliography. By Karen Rae Mehaffey Get access Karen J. Blair Karen J. Blair Central Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…

  • Sowing Good Seeds

    Karen J Blair, G Thomas Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Sowing Good Seeds: The Northwest Suffrage Campaigns of Susan B. Anthony. By G. Thomas Edwards. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. xxvi + 355 pp. $22.50.) Get access Karen J. Blair Karen J. Blair Central Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 686–687, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079610 Published…

  • Women in Pacific Northwest History

    Elizabeth Jameson, Karen J BlairARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1990

  • The Sound of Our Own Voices

    Karen J Blair, Theodora Penny MartinARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1989Cited by: 2

  • Papers of the League of Women Voters, 1918-1974

    Karen J BlairARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Papers of the League of Women Voters, 1918–1974. Part I: Meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committees: Minutes and Related Documents, 1918–1974. 14 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $1,100. Part II: Series A: Transcripts and Records of the National Conventions, 1919–1944, and of General Councils, 1927–1943. 20 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $1,500. Part II: Series B: Transcripts and Records of National Conv…

  • No Step Backward

    Karen J Blair, Paula PetrikARTICLEJournal of American History1988Cited by: 1

    Journal Article No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1863–1900. By Paula Petrik. (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1987. xix + 206 pp. $19.95.) Get access Karen J. Blair Karen J. Blair Central Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 969–970, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • May Mann Jennings

    Karen J Blair, Linda D VanceARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article May Mann Jennings: Florida's Genteel Activist. By Linda D. Vance. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1985. viii + 200 pp. Paper, $15.00.) Get access Karen J. Blair Karen J. Blair University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 1058–1059, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904128 Published: 01 March 1987

  • The Limits of Sisterhood

    Karen J BlairARTICLEFrontiers A Journal of Women…1984

    A modest, two-story wooden structure has stood on the University of Washington campus in Seattle since 1909. Known as the Woman's Building, it served to nurture cooperation among all women at the Alaska-YukonPacific Exposition and then, more importantly, between female students at the school and the community's clubwomen. In 1916, however, female separatism and the sisterhood that it cultivated lost the battle to a new ideology-that of women's eq…

  • Education and Reform in Buffalo Women's Clubs, 1876-1914

    Open AccessKaren J BlairARTICLEUrban Education1984

    Social reform and education of self and others go hand in hand in Buffalo's women's club movement

  • True Sisterhood

    Karen J Blair, Marilyn Ferris MotzARTICLEJournal of American History1984

    Journal Article True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and Their Kin, 1820–1920. By Marilyn Ferris Motz. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. xii + 199 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $31.50; paper, $8.95.) Get access Karen J. Blair Karen J. Blair University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 2, Se…

  • Reverend Beecher and Mrs. Tilton

    Karen J Blair, Altina L WallerARTICLEJournal of American History1983

    Journal Article Reverend Beecher and Mrs. Tilton: Sex and Class in Victorian America. By Altina L. Waller. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. xiii + 177 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Karen J. Blair Karen J. Blair University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 99…

  • The Politics of Domesticity

    Karen J Blair, Barbara EpsteinREVIEWThe New England Quarterly1981

  • The Clubwoman as Feminist

    Glenda Riley, Karen J BlairARTICLEJournal of American History1981

    Journal Article The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868–1914. By Karen J. Blair. (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980. xv + 199 pp. Illustration, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50.) Get access Glenda Riley Glenda Riley University of Northern Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 2, September 1981, Page 405, https://doi.org/10.2307/189002…

  • The clubwoman as feminist

    Karen J BlairBOOKThe clubwoman as feminist1980