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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2007.
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| Collection: | Women's western voices.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.