Women in the American West /

Twenty years after many Western historians first turned their attention toward women, Women in the American West synthesizes the development of women's history in the region, introduces readers to current thinking on the real experiences of Western women, and explores their influence on the cou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woodworth-Ney, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2008.
Colección:Cultures in the American West series.
Temas:
Women > West (U.S.) > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Women > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
West United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Finding "her story" in the American West
  • Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West
  • Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846
  • Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870
  • Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890
  • The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920
  • War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940
  • The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980
  • Late trends and new directions.

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