"[Auerbach] uses gender scholarship to organize and give coherence to this otherwise disparate group. In part 1, 'A Man's World,' he argues that individuals such as [Frank] Cushing, [Charles] Lummis,... and [Fred] Harvey approached the Southwest and the Pueblos from a masculine perspective, desperate to reclaim rugged individualism from the emotional emasculation of Victorian domesticity. Part 2, 'A Woman's Place,' considers the transformation of the Southwest into a feminist utopia by [Mabel] Luhan, [Ruth] Benedict, and others who reimagined the Southwest as a place of liberation for women.... Auerbach makes a strong case for rethinking our approach to Anglo encounters in the Southwest." - The Journal of American History"
