San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Master's Theses Master's Theses and Graduate Research Fall 2016 “A (Blind) Woman's Place is (Teaching) in the Home”: The Life of Kate Foley, 1873-1940 Angela Gates San Jose State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses Recommended Citation Gates, Angela, "“A (Blind) Woman's Place is (Teaching) in the Home”: The Life of Kate Foley, 1873-1940" (2016). Master's Theses. 4754. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.5r2h-4wff https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/4754 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Master's Theses and Graduate Research at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “A (BLIND) WOMAN’S PLACE IS (TEACHING) IN THE HOME”: THE LIFE OF KATE FOLEY, 1873-1940 A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the School of Information San José State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Library and Information Science by Angela Gates December 2016 © 2016 Angela Gates ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Designated Thesis Committee Approves the Thesis Titled “A (BLIND) WOMAN’S PLACE IS (TEACHING) IN THE HOME”: THE LIFE OF KATE FOLEY, 1873-1940 by Angela Gates APPROVED FOR THE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY December 2016 Debra Hansen, Ph.D. School of Information Anthony Bernier, Ph.D. School of Information Elizabeth Wrenn-Estes, MLIS School of Information ABSTRACT “A (BLIND) WOMAN’S PLACE IS (TEACHING) IN THE HOME”: THE LIFE OF KATE FOLEY, 1873-1940 by Angela Gates This thesis examines the life and career of Kate Foley, home teacher of the blind with the California State Library from 1914-1940.