True women & westward expansion /
"Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier. Although there were a few notable exceptions, most of the women drew on their domestic skills and values to establish not only "civilization&q...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2005.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ;
no. 24. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier. Although there were a few notable exceptions, most of the women drew on their domestic skills and values to establish not only "civilization" but also their own security. Caughfield sheds light on women's activism (the flip side of domesticity), attitudes toward and race and "civilization," the tie between a vision of a unified continent and a cultivated wilderness, and republican values. She offers a new understanding of not only gender roles in the West but also the impulse for expansionism itself."--Jacket |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781603446037 1603446036 1299053998 9781299053991 |