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Book SynopsisAlthough women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. Standard histories of cartography have focused on men and maps and only rarely is a woman's name found. Judith Tyner argues that the women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.In American Women in cartography Tyner looks at over 50 women exemplars who made maps in America and the various types of maps they made. She looks at teachers who made school atlases and taught students to make maps in the early 19th century, at pictorial mapmakers and book illustrators who created popular maps', at women who were pioneers in social mapping and persuasive mapping promoting causes like suffrage, women travelers who recorded their trips on maps and mapped unexplored places, at women who made the maps that helped win WWII, at women academics who studied and wrote on cartographic theory and taught cartography to both male and femal
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Women in the History of Cartography Chapter One: Pedagogues and Students Chapter Two: Activists, Persuaders, and Travelers Chapter Three: Pictorial and Illustrative Cartographers Chapter Four: Millie the Mapper and Maps of WWII Chapter Five: Academic Women: Professors and Researchers Chapter Six: Government Girls and Company Women Conclusion Schools with 3M Training Cartography Dissertations and Theses by Women, 1966-1982 Bibliography Index About the Author
