Joan Marie Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Marie Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South
Journal Article Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South. Get access Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 377. Cloth $30.00. Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson Northwestern University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this autho…
Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women’s history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst; Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street “Merchant Prince” William Earle Dodge; and Ava Belmont, who marrie…
Anne Stefani. Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
Anne Stefani has written an engaging history of southern white women who fought for racial justice. In line with the historiography of the long civil rights movement, she begins in the 1920s and traces change over time through 1970, showing how these women become more confrontational in their strategies and radical in their vision of racial equality. Stefani’s history is based on autobiographies, memoirs, letters, oral histories, and secondary so…
Kate Côté Gillin. Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865–1900
This monograph follows the work of several other historians in connecting gender and racial violence in the postwar South. Kate Côté Gillin argues that violence in South Carolina—including beatings, rapes, and lynchings—became more intense in the state after the Civil War due to the links between gender and race. “Violence,” she explains, “was the medium through which southerners expressed their anxieties over the roles of men and women amidst th…
Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915
Historians of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have long recognized the influence of northeastern women's colleges. The Seven Sisters colleges offered advanced academic training and career preparation. Many graduates left imbued with a sense of duty to use their education for the betterment of society. Joan Marie Johnson's study explores this educational and social phenomenon as it relates to a little-examined group: eli…
Job Market or Marriage Market? Life Choices for Southern Women Educated at Northern Colleges, 1875-1915
Margaret Preston, a member of a prominent family from Lexington, Kentucky, attended Bryn Mawr College from 1904 to 1906, initially against her will. Letters between Margaret and her parents while she was away at school reveal a homesick young woman, at first uninterested in scholarship. She complained that the other girls were “ugly and look disagreeable” and that she had bags under her eyes because “Bryn Mawr is a warranted beauty-destroyer.” In…
Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930
Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform. Often doing similar work for different reasons, both groups emphasized history, memory, and education. Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women promoted a culture of segrega…
Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916
Searching for Their Places: Women in the South across Four Centuries
Searching for Their Places is a collection inspired by the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History. The essays in this volume are particularly astute in assessing the ways in which southern women have claimed power, or searched for their places, and suggests how southern women, individually and collectively, have sought to empower themselves. The essays, written by outstanding historians in this field, represent some of the freshest and most…
How would i Live without Loulie?” Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, Activist Sisters in Turn-of-the-Century South Carolina
This article explores the importance of family support in enabling some southern white women to take on more activist, public roles in the early twentieth century. Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, educated sisters from in Charleston, South Carolina, were well positioned to take the lead in women's clubs and other organizations. Graduates of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, they helped redefine “the new southern woman” to mean an educated woma…
Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South
This illustrated collection of essays examines the controversy surrounding the use and display of Confederate symbols in the modern South. Prominent scholars from many disciplines explore the battle between pro-Confederate-symbol forces (traditionalists) and anti-Confederate-symbol forces (reconstructionists) as they struggle to reconcile the values and customs of a racially conservative Old South and a racially liberal New South. Should the Conf…
"Drill into us… the Rebel Tradition": The Contest over Southern Identity in Black and White Women's Clubs, South Carolina, 1898-1930
IN HER MEMOIRS, MAMIE GARVIN FIELDS, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB-WOMAN from Charleston, South Carolina, relates a story about the statue of South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun that still stands in Francis Marion Square, in the center of downtown Charleston. According to Fields: At the same time that [Frederick] Douglass was preaching against slavery, John C. Calhoun was preaching for it.... Our white city fathers wanted to keep what [Calhoun] s…
Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges: African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community
Journal Article Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges: African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community. By Kibibi Voloria C. Mack. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xxviii, 233 pp. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-030-9.) Get access Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issu…
The Power of Femininity in the New South: Women's Organizations and Politics in North Carolina, 1880-1930
Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920
Journal Article Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880–1920. By Elizabeth Hayes Turner. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 371 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-19-508688-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-511938-X.) Get access Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March…
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois
Journal Article Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 162 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33447-0.) Get access Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1359–1360, https…
Job Market or Marriage Market? Life Choices for Southern Women Educated at Northern Colleges, 1875-1915
Margaret Preston, a member of a prominent family from Lexington, Kentucky, attended Bryn Mawr College from 1904 to 1906, initially against her will. Letters between Margaret and her parents while she was away at school reveal a homesick young woman, at first uninterested in scholarship. She complained that the other girls were “ugly and look disagreeable” and that she had bags under her eyes because “Bryn Mawr is a warranted beauty-destroyer.” In…
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois
Journal Article Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 162 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33447-0.) Get access Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1359–1360, https…
The Power of Femininity in the New South: Women's Organizations and Politics in North Carolina, 1880-1930
Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920
Journal Article Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880–1920. By Elizabeth Hayes Turner. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 371 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-19-508688-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-511938-X.) Get access Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March…
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois
Journal Article Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 162 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33447-0.) Get access Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1359–1360, https…
"Drill into us… the Rebel Tradition": The Contest over Southern Identity in Black and White Women's Clubs, South Carolina, 1898-1930
IN HER MEMOIRS, MAMIE GARVIN FIELDS, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB-WOMAN from Charleston, South Carolina, relates a story about the statue of South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun that still stands in Francis Marion Square, in the center of downtown Charleston. According to Fields: At the same time that [Frederick] Douglass was preaching against slavery, John C. Calhoun was preaching for it.... Our white city fathers wanted to keep what [Calhoun] s…
Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges: African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community
Journal Article Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges: African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community. By Kibibi Voloria C. Mack. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xxviii, 233 pp. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-030-9.) Get access Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issu…
Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South
This illustrated collection of essays examines the controversy surrounding the use and display of Confederate symbols in the modern South. Prominent scholars from many disciplines explore the battle between pro-Confederate-symbol forces (traditionalists) and anti-Confederate-symbol forces (reconstructionists) as they struggle to reconcile the values and customs of a racially conservative Old South and a racially liberal New South. Should the Conf…
How would i Live without Loulie?” Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, Activist Sisters in Turn-of-the-Century South Carolina
This article explores the importance of family support in enabling some southern white women to take on more activist, public roles in the early twentieth century. Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, educated sisters from in Charleston, South Carolina, were well positioned to take the lead in women's clubs and other organizations. Graduates of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, they helped redefine “the new southern woman” to mean an educated woma…
Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930
Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform. Often doing similar work for different reasons, both groups emphasized history, memory, and education. Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women promoted a culture of segrega…
Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916
Searching for Their Places: Women in the South across Four Centuries
Searching for Their Places is a collection inspired by the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History. The essays in this volume are particularly astute in assessing the ways in which southern women have claimed power, or searched for their places, and suggests how southern women, individually and collectively, have sought to empower themselves. The essays, written by outstanding historians in this field, represent some of the freshest and most…
Job Market or Marriage Market? Life Choices for Southern Women Educated at Northern Colleges, 1875-1915
Margaret Preston, a member of a prominent family from Lexington, Kentucky, attended Bryn Mawr College from 1904 to 1906, initially against her will. Letters between Margaret and her parents while she was away at school reveal a homesick young woman, at first uninterested in scholarship. She complained that the other girls were “ugly and look disagreeable” and that she had bags under her eyes because “Bryn Mawr is a warranted beauty-destroyer.” In…
Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915
Historians of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have long recognized the influence of northeastern women's colleges. The Seven Sisters colleges offered advanced academic training and career preparation. Many graduates left imbued with a sense of duty to use their education for the betterment of society. Joan Marie Johnson's study explores this educational and social phenomenon as it relates to a little-examined group: eli…
Kate Côté Gillin. Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865–1900
This monograph follows the work of several other historians in connecting gender and racial violence in the postwar South. Kate Côté Gillin argues that violence in South Carolina—including beatings, rapes, and lynchings—became more intense in the state after the Civil War due to the links between gender and race. “Violence,” she explains, “was the medium through which southerners expressed their anxieties over the roles of men and women amidst th…
Anne Stefani. Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
Anne Stefani has written an engaging history of southern white women who fought for racial justice. In line with the historiography of the long civil rights movement, she begins in the 1920s and traces change over time through 1970, showing how these women become more confrontational in their strategies and radical in their vision of racial equality. Stefani’s history is based on autobiographies, memoirs, letters, oral histories, and secondary so…
Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women’s history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst; Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street “Merchant Prince” William Earle Dodge; and Ava Belmont, who marrie…
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South
Journal Article Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South. Get access Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 377. Cloth $30.00. Joan Marie Johnson Joan Marie Johnson Northwestern University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this autho…
History (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · American History and Culture (8 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · South carolina (6 works)