1st Edition
Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations of Women
List of figures
List of contributors
1. Where are the Monuments to Women? An Introduction
Sherene Baugher and John H. Jameson
SECTION 1: Monumental Symbols, Heroes, and Real Women
2. The Boadicea and Her Daughters Statue Near Parliament
David Furlow, Independent Scholar
3. Commemoration of Molly Brant: a Canadian and American Dichotomy in Memorialization of an Indigenous Woman
Susan M. Bazely, Independent Scholar
4. In the Footsteps of Heroines: Resurrecting a Nineteenth Century Female Leader, Efunroye Tinubu, in 20th Century Nigerian Politics
Judith A. Byfield, Cornell University
5. Monuments from the Margins: Reframing the Visibility of Women in London’s Commemorative Landscape
Fay Stevens, University of Oxford
6. The Missing Statues of a City’s History :
Female representation among commemorative monuments in the city of Leiden
Nienke Hop, University of Leiden
7. The Waving Girl of Savannah: Commemoration, Local Memory, and the Politics of Place
John H Jameson, ICOMOS-, NPS Retired
8. The Rebecca Nurse Monument and George Jacobs Headstone: Using Landscape Archaeology to Discover a Commemorative Environment
Alaina K Scapicchio, University of South Florida
9. Commemorating Millicent Fenwick, The Conscience of Congress
Richard Veit, Monmouth University
SECTION 2: Battling Oppression in the 21st Century
10. Revealing Their Contributions: American Statues to Harriet Tubman and Other Black Women of Achievement
Sherene Baugher, Cornell University, Emeritus
11. Why Katherine Johnson? Why Now? The Shifting Meaning and Symbolism in Black Women Campus Statuary at HBCUs
Le’Passion Darby, University of Illinois, Springfield
12. Statuary and a Gendered Reckoning with Australia’s Settler-Colonial Past
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Vera Mackie, Ana Stevenson, and Andrea Witcomb, University of Wollongong
13. Public Statues of Women-Who are they for? Working Women?
Heather Sebire, Independent Scholar
14. Queering "His-Stories” Versus “Herstories” in Narratives about Statues of Women in European Cultures: Insights from Feminist Theories
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Oakland University
15. The Enthralled Male Gaze
Alice B. Kehoe, Marquette University, Emeritus
16. Monuments to Queer Women: Navigating Complexities and a Typology
Megan E. Springate, University of Maryland
Index
Biography
Sherene Baugher, an historical archaeologist, is Professor Emeritus in the departments of Anthropology and Landscape Architecture at Cornell University in the USA.
John H. Jameson is a retired senior archaeologist and interpretation program lead in the U.S. National Park Service and an international leader in cultural heritage interpretation.
