Brenda D Frink
Biographic Data
| ID | 272027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda D Frink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda D |
| FAMILY NAME | Frink |
| SIGNATURE | FRINK B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feminist Histories
In March of 2022, I left the cool, overcast weather in Pacfiic Historical Review’s home city of Portland, to attend a two-day history conference at Stanford University. Walking thorough the campus, I felt buoyant, full of possibility. The feeling came partly from Northern California’s idyllic spring weather and partly from the broadened horizons of my first travel since 2020. It was also the excitement of listening to new work on the conference t…
The Origins of the Ideal Worker
This article presents a historical analysis of the history of work/home separation in the United States. With the growth of markets and technology, work and home (which had been mixed) became separate and gendered. Early 20th-century offices adapted productivity standards from factories into the new white-collar 'ideal worker' norm. By the 1950s, the office culture familiar today was well established-movies, television, and novels glorified the g…
San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument
The 1907-1915 campaign to create San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument provides both a case study of conservative uses of maternalism and a window into the political mutability of maternalist rhetoric. Ella Sterling Mighels, a pioneer descendant, utilized the monument campaign to promote white women's moral influence over middle-class men, to argue against Asian immigration and labor unrest, and to inculcate old-fashioned moral values among urb…
The Origins of the Ideal Worker
This article presents a historical analysis of the history of work/home separation in the United States. With the growth of markets and technology, work and home (which had been mixed) became separate and gendered. Early 20th-century offices adapted productivity standards from factories into the new white-collar 'ideal worker' norm. By the 1950s, the office culture familiar today was well established-movies, television, and novels glorified the g…
San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument
The 1907-1915 campaign to create San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument provides both a case study of conservative uses of maternalism and a window into the political mutability of maternalist rhetoric. Ella Sterling Mighels, a pioneer descendant, utilized the monument campaign to promote white women's moral influence over middle-class men, to argue against Asian immigration and labor unrest, and to inculcate old-fashioned moral values among urb…
San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument
The 1907-1915 campaign to create San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument provides both a case study of conservative uses of maternalism and a window into the political mutability of maternalist rhetoric. Ella Sterling Mighels, a pioneer descendant, utilized the monument campaign to promote white women's moral influence over middle-class men, to argue against Asian immigration and labor unrest, and to inculcate old-fashioned moral values among urb…
The Origins of the Ideal Worker
This article presents a historical analysis of the history of work/home separation in the United States. With the growth of markets and technology, work and home (which had been mixed) became separate and gendered. Early 20th-century offices adapted productivity standards from factories into the new white-collar 'ideal worker' norm. By the 1950s, the office culture familiar today was well established-movies, television, and novels glorified the g…
Feminist Histories
In March of 2022, I left the cool, overcast weather in Pacfiic Historical Review’s home city of Portland, to attend a two-day history conference at Stanford University. Walking thorough the campus, I felt buoyant, full of possibility. The feeling came partly from Northern California’s idyllic spring weather and partly from the broadened horizons of my first travel since 2020. It was also the excitement of listening to new work on the conference t…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Blue collar (1 works) · Economics (1 works)