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Woodworth-Ney, Laura.

Women in the American West [electronic resource] / Laura E. Woodworth-Ney. - Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008. - xxvi, 387 p. : ill., maps. - Cultures in the American West . - Cultures in the American West series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

ISBN: 9781598840513 (electronic bk.) 1598840517 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--History.--West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life--History.--West (U.S.)
Women--Social conditions.--West (U.S.)

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1438.W45 / W67 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 305.40978