ISBN:
9780807877265
,
0807877263
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 266 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Gender and American culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Simonsen, Jane E Making home work
DDC:
305.4889707809034
Keywords:
Arts and society History
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19th century
;
West (U.S.)
;
Arts and society History
;
20th century
;
West (U.S.)
;
Home economics Cross-cultural studies
;
Social values West (U.S.)
;
Women Social conditions
;
West (U.S.)
;
Indian women Cultural assimilation
;
West (U.S.)
;
Arts and society History 20th century
;
Home economics Cross-cultural studies
;
Social values
;
Women Social conditions
;
Indian women Cultural assimilation
;
Arts and society History 19th century
;
Arts and society
;
Home economics
;
Social values
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Cross-cultural studies
;
History
;
West United States
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Treating white and indigenous women's struggles as part of the same history, Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and domestic laborers insisted upon the value of their work to "civilization," they exposed the inequalities integral to both the nation and the household. Includes analysis of texts and images created by writers, women's rights activists, reformers, anthropologists, photographers, field matrons, a
Abstract:
Introduction: Squaring the circle -- Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement -- The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home -- Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation -- The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki -- A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field -- Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival -- Postscript: The map and the territory.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index. - Description based on print version record
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