Kaufman discovered the staff in a national park can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. Both this new reality and the acceptance of women as leaders have affected Park Service culture, making it more collaborative, more inclusive, less paternalistic, and more open to partnerships.
What was said about the first edition: "[Polly] Kaufman used extensive sources from women's, environmental, and national park history; she interviewed almost four hundred women. . . . She analyzes effectively the ways in which various women dealt with the male-defined Park Service culture, contemporary patterns of service in which women are superintendents primarily in small to medium sized historic parks, problems of dual-career marriages, and ways in which women's perspectives and values, which often differ from those of men, helped shape today's national parks."Sylvia W. McGrath, H-Net, the Popular Culture and the American Culture Associations
Kaufman discovered the staff in a national park can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. Both this new reality and the acceptance of women as leaders have affected Park Service culture, making it more collaborative, more inclusive, less paternalistic, and more open to partnerships.
What was said about the first edition: "[Polly] Kaufman used extensive sources from women's, environmental, and national park history; she interviewed almost four hundred women. . . . She analyzes effectively the ways in which various women dealt with the male-defined Park Service culture, contemporary patterns of service in which women are superintendents primarily in small to medium sized historic parks, problems of dual-career marriages, and ways in which women's perspectives and values, which often differ from those of men, helped shape today's national parks."Sylvia W. McGrath, H-Net, the Popular Culture and the American Culture Associations
National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History
352National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History
352Paperback(Updated edition)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780826339942 |
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Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
Publication date: | 03/30/2006 |
Edition description: | Updated edition |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.79(d) |
Lexile: | 1470L (what's this?) |