Portraits of Women in the American West

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-94802-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told.

This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence, the subordinate status of women of color, their perseverance and influence in changing that status, a look at the gendered religious legacy that shaped Western Catholicism, and women in the urban and rural, industrial and agricultural West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garceau-Hagen, Dee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents Introduction Dee Garceau-Hagen 1. Mining a Mythic Past: The History of Mary Ellen Pleasant Lynn M. Hudson 2. Rape Narratives on the Northern Paiute Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca, Sexual Sovereignty, and Economic Autonomy, 1844-1891 Rosemarie Stremlau 3. Frances Fuller Victor's Promotion of Strong, Independent Womanhood: Women and Marriage Reconstructed in The New Penelope June Johnson Bube 4. We Had No Assistance from Anyone - Happier to Do It Alone: Montana, the Missions, and Mother Amadeus Anne M. Butler 5. Finding Mary Fields: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Memory Dee Garceau-Hagen 6. Reclaiming Polly Bemis: China's Daughter, Idaho's Legendary Pioneer Ruthanne Lum McCunn 7. Unlikely Champion: Emma Rose Sansaver, 1884-1925 Linda Peavey and Ursula Smith 8. The Curative Space of the American West in the Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart Natalie Dykstra 9. Elizabeth Layton DeMary and the Culture Club: New Womanhood in a Reclamation Settlement Community Laura Woodworth-Ney

Über Autor(innen)

Dee Garceau-Hagen is Associate Professor of History and Chair of Women's Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the co-editor of Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West (Routledge).