Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men. A woman's name is rarely found. In Women in American Cartography, Judith Tyner argues that women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.Tyner looks at over fifty women exemplars in American cartography and their maps. She looks at teachers who made school atlases in the early nineteenth century; at pictorial mapmakers and book illustrators who created popular maps; at women who pioneered social and persuasive mapping, promoting causes such as suffrage; at women travelers who recorded their trips and mapped unexplored places; at women whose maps helped win Word War II; at women academics who studied, taught, and wrote about cartographic theory at colleges and universities; and at women who worked in government agencies and commercial mapping companies. These are just a few of the stories of women in American cartography.
Author(s): Judith Tyner
Publisher: Lexington Books
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 150
City: Lanham
Cover
Women in American Cartography
Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
Chapter 1
Pedagogues and Students
The Teachers
Schoolgirl Maps
Globes
Notes
Chapter 2
Activists, Persuaders, and Travelers
Maps for Social Change
Women Travelers and Explorers
Notes
Chapter 3
Pictorial and Illustrated Maps
Pictorial Maps
Illustrative Maps
Notes
Chapter 4
Millie the Mapper and Maps of the Second World War
Army Map Service
Office of Strategic Services
Tennessee Valley Authority
Other Agencies
Map Librarians
Attitudes toward Women
After the War
Notes
Chapter 5
Women Professors and Researchers
Normal Schools
Pre-Second World War
Post-Second World War
Cartography as a Research Tool
Cartographic Illustrators
Gendered Experiences
Notes
Chapter 6
Government Girls and Company Women
Pioneers in Applied Cartography
Post-Second World War
Government Agencies
Societies and Organizations
Commercial Firms
Notes
Notes
Army Map Service
Masters Theses by Women 1960–1977
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
