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No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950 contains the stories of 26 North American women who were active in the field of adult education sometime between the years of 1925 and 1950. Generally, women’s contributions have been omitted from the field’s histories. No Small Lives is designed to address this gap and restore women to their rightful place in the history of adult education in North America.
The primary audience for this book is adult education professors and their graduate students. This book can be used in courses including history and sociology of adult education, the adult learner, courses specific to exploring women’s contributions and activities. The secondary audience is the broader fields of women’s studies, feminist history, sociology and psychology or those fields that include an examination of women in the early twentieth century. It could also be useful to those focusing on more specific topics such as gender and race studies, prejudice, marginalization, power, how women were sometimes portrayed as invisible or as central figures, and women in leadership and policy making.
Foreword, M. Carolyn Clark.
Preface, Editors.
Part I: Historical Background.
Chapter 1. Searching for the Women in a Defeminized Past: American Adult Education Between the Wars, Amy D. Rose.
Chapter 2. Adult Education History and the Issue of Gender: Stepping Back to Move Forward, Jane M. Hugo.
Part II: Profiles of 26 Women.
Chapter 3. Lucy Wilcox Adams: Proponent of Discussion-Based Adult Education, Susan Imel.
Chapter 4. "Don't Shush Me!": Nora Bateson, Activist Librarian, Sue Adams.
Chapter 5. Nannie Helen Burroughs: Religious Leader, Educator, Activist, Opal Easter-Smith.
Chapter 6. Maestra Maravillosa: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, Rosalie C. Otero.
Chapter 7. Olive Dame Campbell: An Appalachian Social Activist and Adult Educator, Carol E. Kasworm.
Chapter 8. Jessie Allen Charters: "Giving the Best We Know to Mothers and Fathers", Constance E. Wanstreet.
Chapter 9. Jean Carter Ogden: "These Things We've Tried: Democracy and Adult Education", Susan J. Barcinas.
Chapter 10. Eve Chappell: A Fine Italian Hand, Susan Imel.
Chapter 11. Mary L. Ely: Dedicated Adult Educator, Gretchen T. Bersch.
Chapter 12. Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Strengthening Democracy Through Adult Learning, Charlene A. Sexton.
Chapter 13. Mary Parker Follett: A Paradox of Adult Learner and Educator, Vivian W. Mott.
Chapter 14. Waking Up the World: Mae C. Hawes and Adult Education, Lisa R. Merriweather.
Chapter 15. Maria L. Hernández: An Untiring Fighter, Sylvia Fuentes.
Chapter 16. Dorothy V. Hewitt: Pioneer and Founder of the Boston Center for Adult Education, Mary Alice Wolf.
Chapter 17. Ruth Kotinsky: "Glancing Back, Reaching Forward", Norma Nerstrom.
Chapter 18. "Education for Living": Roberta Campbell Lawson, Marilyn McKinley Parrish.
Chapter 19. Florence Mary O'Neill: Her Own Path Through the Newfoundland Wilderness, Katherine McManus.
Chapter 20. Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet: Adult Education for an Educated Citizenry, Yvonne K. Rappaport and Marcie Boucouvalas.
Chapter 21. Elizabeth Peratrovich: The Right to Education, Diane E. Benson (Lxeis').
Chapter 22. Virginia Estelle Randolph and the Jeanes Teachers, Bernadine S. Chapman.
Chapter 23. Harriett Rouillard: "The Stamp of Its Editor" on the CAAE's Food for Thought, Leona M. English.
Chapter 24. "Whistling in the Dark": The Adult Education Work of Prison Arts Teacher Amy Paddon Row, Dominique T. Chlup.
Chapter 25. Dorothy Rowden: Tireless Editor, Writer, and Advocate, Lisa M. Baumgartner.
Chapter 26. Hilda "Jane" Worthington Smith: Pioneer in Women Workers' Education, Gretchen T. Bersch.
Chapter 27. Moranda Smith: From Tobacco Plant Worker to Local Union Organizer to First African American Woman to Head a Southern Regional Union, Jovita M. Ross-Gordon and Geleana Drew Alston.
Chapter 28. The Vision and Pedagogical Sensibility of Isabel Wilson: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due, Shauna Butterwick and Jonathan B. Fisher.
Part III: Conclusion.
Chapter 29. Women, Gender Politics, and Adult Education in the Contemporary World: "Leaning In to Progress", Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Elizabeth J. Tisdell.
Chapter 30. Themes Across the Women's Lives, Susan Imel and Gretchen T. Bersch.
Appendix A: Other Notable Women From 1925 to 1950, Carole L. Lund.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.