ISBN:
9780826351548
,
0826351549
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 437 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Women and gender in the American West
DDC:
305.40978
Keywords:
Women History
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West (U.S.)
;
Women History
;
Canada, Western
;
Indian women History
;
West (U.S.)
;
Indian women History
;
Canada, Western
;
Marriage History
;
West (U.S.)
;
Marriage History
;
Canada, Western
;
Canada, Western
;
United States, West
;
Women History
;
Indian women History
;
Indian women History
;
Marriage History
;
Marriage History
;
Women History
;
Women
;
Indian women
;
Marriage
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Western Canada
;
West United States
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Introduction / by Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- The gentle tamers revisited : new approaches to the history of women in the American west / Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- At their peril : Utah law and the case of plural wives, 1850-1900 / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- Race, gender, and intercultural relations : the case of interracial marriage / Peggy Pascoe -- Women of color and the rewriting of western history : the discourse, politics, and decolonization of history / Antonia I. Castañeda -- A memory sweet to soldiers : the significance of gender in the history of the American West / Susan Lee Johnson -- Gender, race, raza / Amy Kaminsky -- Texas newspapers and chicana workers' activism, 1919-1974 / Irene Ledesma -- This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands / James F. Brooks -- No place for a woman : engendering western Canadian settlement / Catherine A. Cavanaugh -- Taming Aboriginal sexuality : gender, power, and race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 / Jean Barman -- Going about and doing good : the politics of benevolence, welfare, and gender in San Francisco, 1850-1880" / Mary Ann Irwin -- Strong animal passions in the gilded age : race, sex, and a senator on trial / Lynn M. Hudson -- Elle meets the president : weaving Navajo culture and commerce in the Southwestern tourist industry / Laura Jane Moore -- The Eastmans and the Luhans : interracial marriage between White women and Native American men, 1875-1935 / Margaret D. Jacobs.
Abstract:
The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume
Note:
"Jensen-Miller prize essays from the coalition for Western women's history. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record
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