Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era

Christina E. Dando is Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received her B.A. in Geography and English from the University of North Dakota and her M.S. and Ph.D.s in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include the impacts of media and technology on human perception and interaction with the environment, particularly the Great Plains. She is also interested in gender and geography, how landscape and environment have long been gendered as well as how gender impacts human experience and interaction with the environment. She is a member of the American Association of Geographers and of the Society of Woman Geographers. When not researching and writing, she enjoys exploring new landscapes and reading for sheer pleasure.

"Maps have long been used by those in power, traditionally men, to show strength and ownership, to shape thought and to embody nationalism. Here, Dando shows American women in the Progressive Era using the power of maps to further causes important to them: education, the preservation of historic features, social uplift and equality. This book is an important addition…Dando has made fresh contributions to scholarship on the ‘new woman’, not least by drawing attention to the importance of the intersection of geography, mapping and the social-settlement movement."- Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Texas A&M University—Commerce Commerce, Texas

• 1. The Power and the Pleasure 2. Women, Geographic Knowledge, and Mobility 3. "Woman’s Work" Part I – American Women Missionary Geographies 4. "Woman’s Work" Part II – Hull-House and Social Settlement Work 5. Changing the Map – Political Activism, Geography, and Cartography 6. Maps in Motion, Women in Motion