San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument
Maternalism, Racial Order, and the Politics of Memorialization, 1907-1915
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2955115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brenda D Frink (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-113 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.2012.0001 |
| PMID | 22826896 |
| OpenAlex | W2116619486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
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 urban children. Although some of Mighels's contemporaries cited pioneer mothers as proof of women's fitness for suffrage, Mighels herself used the pioneer mother to argue against suffrage. The final statue, created by the sculptor Charles Grafly, failed to encapsulate Mighels's multivalent political message and to express her ideals about gender, race, class, and morality
Art history · League · Morality · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Statue · Suffrage · White (mutation · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2000 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |