Portraits of Women in the American West

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told.This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence, the subordinate status of women of color, their perseverance and influence in changing that status, a look at the gendered religious legacy that shaped Western Catholicism, and women in the urban and rural, industrial and agricultural West.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor286
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415948029

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Table of Contents Introduction Dee Garceau-Hagen 1. Mining a Mythic Past: The History of Mary Ellen Pleasant Lynn M. Hudson 2. Rape Narratives on the Northern Paiute Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca, Sexual Sovereignty, and Economic Autonomy, 1844-1891 Rosemarie Stremlau 3. Frances Fuller Victor's Promotion of Strong, Independent Womanhood: Women and Marriage Reconstructed in The New Penelope June Johnson Bube 4. We Had No Assistance from Anyone - Happier to Do It Alone: Montana, the Missions, and Mother Amadeus Anne M. Butler 5. Finding Mary Fields: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Memory Dee Garceau-Hagen 6. Reclaiming Polly Bemis: China's Daughter, Idaho's Legendary Pioneer Ruthanne Lum McCunn 7. Unlikely Champion: Emma Rose Sansaver, 1884-1925 Linda Peavey and Ursula Smith 8. The Curative Space of the American West in the Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart Natalie Dykstra 9. Elizabeth Layton DeMary and the Culture Club: New Womanhood in a Reclamation Settlement Community Laura Woodworth-Ney

"The personal profiles in Portraits of Women in theAmerican West reveal the fascinating and complex dynamics of women's lives in the American West. This collection's multidimensional and multi-cultural representations open up new and important perspectives on diverse peoples and places. Each chapter holds rewarding insights for attentive readers." -- Clyde Milner, editor of The OxfordHistory of the American West"This book is a smorgasbord of delectable essays that introduce new subjects and recast well-known characters of the American West. The confusion, humiliation, and terror of rape and racism, as well as the joy and satisfaction of work, homemaking, and organizing are conveyed in this collection of illuminating and sensitive biographical essays." -- Mary Murphy, author of MiningCultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41"These are women who challenged, reordered, and recreated lives that often did not fit conventional cultural expectations of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." -- Sandra Schackel, editor of Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in theTwentieth Century