ISBN:
1598840509
,
1598840517
,
9781598840506
,
9781598840513
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVI, 387 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Cultures in the American West
DDC:
305.40978
Keywords:
Women History
;
Frontier and pioneer life History
;
Women Social conditions
;
Frontier
;
Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte
;
USA
Abstract:
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
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007052354-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007052354-d.html
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