{"id":1310,"date":"2017-10-17T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:59:41","slug":"25-for-25-lenabelle-bock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2017\/10\/17\/25-for-25-lenabelle-bock\/","title":{"rendered":"25 for 25: Lenabelle Bock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lenabelle Bock was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1960.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives commemorates Lenabelle Bock. Bock, whose name is spelled variously Lenabelle and Lena Belle, was politically active in Iowa for over twenty-five years before her election to the Iowa House of Representatives. Bock, a Republican, campaigned for and won the House seat for Hancock County. She was one of five women elected to the House in 1960. She is often remembered for her statement: “Women in the legislature need to look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, and work like a dog.”<\/p>\n

The Lenabelle Bock papers, housed at the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives consist of three scrapbooks covering Bock’s legislative career from 1961-1964.<\/p>\n

When I was starting research for my MA on women in politics in Iowa in the 1950-60s, I was delighted by the trove of useful primary sources I found at the Iowa Women’s Archives.  One of the best finds of my research there, which in turn helped shape my MA project, was discovering the political<\/p>\n

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Danielle Hoskins is a current American History graduate student at the University of Iowa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

scrapbook of Lenabelle Bock, who served the Iowa House of Representatives from 1961-1965.  What struck me most about the Lenabelle Bock scrapbook was its compilation \u2013 I saw her constructing a narrative about her political career not just in what she chose to keep and collect in the pages of a scrapbook, but in how she decided to compile it.  For example, Bock placed a newspaper article listing her as a candidate at a Republican rally opposite a page describing her as \u201cour state representative\u201d at the same rally the next year, despite the majority of the scrapbook running month-to-month chronologically.  She was making a conscious connection between the two events, as if to say that she made good on her candidacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Danielle Hoskins, University of Iowa 2017<\/p>\n

This post is a part of the Iowa Women’s Archives’ 25th anniversary celebration and exhibition: 25 Collections for 25 Years: Selections from the Iowa Women’s Archives<\/a> on display until December 29th at the Main Library Gallery. Gallery hours<\/a> are available on the Main Library website. For more information about events, see our 25th anniversary website. <\/a><\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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