Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simonsen, Jane E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Colección:Gender & American culture.
Temas:
1800-1999
Arts and society > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Arts and society > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
Home economics > Cross-cultural studies.
Social values > West (U.S.)
Women > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
Indian women > Cultural assimilation > West (U.S.)
Indians > Cultural assimilation > West (U.S.)
Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Acculturation > États-Unis (Ouest)
Peuples autochtones > Acculturation > États-Unis (Ouest)
Femmes > États-Unis (Ouest) > Conditions sociales.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis (Ouest)
Arts et société > États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Arts et société > États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Économie domestique > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Indians > Cultural assimilation
Arts and society.
Home economics.
Social values.
Women > Social conditions.
West United States.
Cross-cultural studies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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