Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier /
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a "secr...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fashioning women and men on the frontier
- Masculine providers and manly men
- Love, power, and marital choice
- Refining the domestic sphere
- New roles for "new women"
- Remembering and reinventing Oregon pioneers.