ISBN:
9781598840506
,
1598840509
,
9781598840513
,
1598840517
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 387 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausgabe Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cultures in the American West series
Parallel Title:
Reproduktion von Woodworth-Ney, Laura Women in the American West
DDC:
305.40978
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Women / West (U.S.) / History
;
Frontier and pioneer life / West (U.S.) / History
;
Women / West (U.S.) / Social conditions
;
Soziale Situation
;
Frau
;
Frontier
;
USA Weststaaten
;
USA Weststaaten
;
Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte
;
Frontier
;
Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Finding "her story" in the American West -- Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West -- Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846 -- Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870 -- Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890 -- The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920 -- War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940 -- The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980 -- Late trends and new directions
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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