Debra Gold Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Gold Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra Gold |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Depoliticizing the California State Library
This article examines the career of James Gillis, California’s state librarian from 1899 to 1917. It reviews the role politics played in library staffing prior to Gillis’s appointment and considers the extent to which Gillis filled his own staff with patronage hires. It then discusses why and how Gillis ended the state library’s spoils system and professionalized operations. While duly crediting Gillis’s importance as a library administrator, thi…
Sister Societies
Sister Societies opens in 1834 with an account of New Hampshire women braving a threatening mob to hear an antislavery lecture. “The Concord women found the power to challenge the mob in their association with each other,” author Beth A. Salerno writes. “Together they could take on not only local troublemakers but the most powerful economic and political institution in the country” (p. 3). Although histories of female abolitionism abound, Salerno…
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
In her study of American antebellvun and wartime abolitionism, Julie Roy Jeffrey argues that "ordinary" women formed the essential foundation of the movement to eradicate slavery.Chiding historians for ignoring the muted masses of female abolitionists, Jeffrey challenges scholars to consider how abolitionism rnight have become marginalized if ordinary women had not pursued reformist roles.If it were not for these women, Jeffrey hypothesizes, abol…
Civil War Boston
Journal Article Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield. By Thomas H. O'Connor. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xvi, 313 pp. $26.95, ISBN 1-55553-318-3.) Get access Debra Gold Hansen Debra Gold Hansen San José State University, Fullerton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Page 1079, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567268 P…
Cultural Crusaders
Journal Article Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900–1917. By Joanne E. Passet. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. xx, 208 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-82631530-5.) Get access Debra Gold Hansen Debra Gold Hansen San Jose State University, Fullerton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 785, https:/…
Strained Sisterhood
The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom
Strained Sisterhood
Explores the origins of the feminist equality-versus-difference debate by examining the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which disbanded in 1840 over this very issue. Hansen concludes that many of the issues that estranged abolitionists in antebellum Boston continue to divide women today
Strained Sisterhood
Journal Article Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. By Debra Gold Hansen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xii, 231 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87023-848-5.) Get access Nancy Isenberg Nancy Isenberg University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1306, ht…
Sister Societies
Sister Societies opens in 1834 with an account of New Hampshire women braving a threatening mob to hear an antislavery lecture. “The Concord women found the power to challenge the mob in their association with each other,” author Beth A. Salerno writes. “Together they could take on not only local troublemakers but the most powerful economic and political institution in the country” (p. 3). Although histories of female abolitionism abound, Salerno…
Strained Sisterhood
Strained Sisterhood
The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom
Strained Sisterhood
Explores the origins of the feminist equality-versus-difference debate by examining the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which disbanded in 1840 over this very issue. Hansen concludes that many of the issues that estranged abolitionists in antebellum Boston continue to divide women today
Strained Sisterhood
Journal Article Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. By Debra Gold Hansen. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xii, 231 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87023-848-5.) Get access Nancy Isenberg Nancy Isenberg University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1306, ht…
Cultural Crusaders
Journal Article Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900–1917. By Joanne E. Passet. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. xx, 208 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-82631530-5.) Get access Debra Gold Hansen Debra Gold Hansen San Jose State University, Fullerton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 785, https:/…
Civil War Boston
Journal Article Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield. By Thomas H. O'Connor. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xvi, 313 pp. $26.95, ISBN 1-55553-318-3.) Get access Debra Gold Hansen Debra Gold Hansen San José State University, Fullerton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Page 1079, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567268 P…
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
In her study of American antebellvun and wartime abolitionism, Julie Roy Jeffrey argues that "ordinary" women formed the essential foundation of the movement to eradicate slavery.Chiding historians for ignoring the muted masses of female abolitionists, Jeffrey challenges scholars to consider how abolitionism rnight have become marginalized if ordinary women had not pursued reformist roles.If it were not for these women, Jeffrey hypothesizes, abol…
Sister Societies
Sister Societies opens in 1834 with an account of New Hampshire women braving a threatening mob to hear an antislavery lecture. “The Concord women found the power to challenge the mob in their association with each other,” author Beth A. Salerno writes. “Together they could take on not only local troublemakers but the most powerful economic and political institution in the country” (p. 3). Although histories of female abolitionism abound, Salerno…
Depoliticizing the California State Library
This article examines the career of James Gillis, California’s state librarian from 1899 to 1917. It reviews the role politics played in library staffing prior to Gillis’s appointment and considers the extent to which Gillis filled his own staff with patronage hires. It then discusses why and how Gillis ended the state library’s spoils system and professionalized operations. While duly crediting Gillis’s importance as a library administrator, thi…
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