{"id":7345,"date":"2019-05-22T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T20:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2019-05-23T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:26:10","slug":"featured-reviews-of-searching-for-mary-schaffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2019\/05\/22\/featured-reviews-of-searching-for-mary-schaffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of &#8220;Searching for Mary Sch\u00e4ffer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Skidmore\u2019s monograph offers a robust introduction to Sch\u00e4ffer\u2019s work and contributes to recent scholarship in American art that attends to work produced across the North American continent&#8230;. Overall, Skidmore delivers an analysis of Sch\u00e4ffer\u2019s prolific career as an artist and writer that will be of specific interest to scholars interested in the history of photography, women\u2019s studies, and the history of science&#8230;. Skidmore offers a refreshing alternative to other studies in her emphasis on the collaborative practices that Sch\u00e4ffer engaged in alongside other women who were drawn to the Canadian Rockies during the early twentieth century.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/editions.lib.umn.edu\/panorama\/article\/searching-for-mary-schaffer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Full review<\/a>] Katherine Mintie, <em>Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;a full and fascinating narrative of Sch\u00e4ffer&#8217;s adult life, including her four-month summer excursions, in 1907 and 1908, into remote areas of the Rockies of Alberta and BC&#8230;. In this detailed book, Skidmore writes Sch\u00e4ffer, deservedly, into a historical narrative heretofore populated mostly by men&#8230;. [I]t is a significant achievement.&#8221; Stephen Ross Smith, <em>Alberta Views Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In this book, Skidmore considers four basic themes &#8211; women, wilderness, travel, and science. She asks questions, tells stories, and makes full use of material in the archives of Canada and the United States.&#8221; Alberta History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Searching for Mary Sch\u00e4ffer is an important contribution for historical geographers and for those interested in nineteenth-century Indigenous-settler points of contact and mapping, feminist historians seeking to decentre predominant Edwardian travel narratives, and historians of photography, expanding the field of the Canadian historical imaginary.&#8221; [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Full review (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhg.2018.11.010\" target=\"_blank\">Full review<\/a> ] Lisa Binkley, Journal of Historical Geography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<p>[metaslider id=&#8221;7384&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Skidmore\u2019s monograph offers a robust introduction to Sch\u00e4ffer\u2019s work and contributes to recent scholarship in American art that attends to work produced across the North American continent&#8230;. Overall, Skidmore delivers an analysis of Sch\u00e4ffer\u2019s prolific career as an artist and writer that will be of specific interest to scholars interested in the history of photography, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}