Women in the American West [electronic resource] / Laura E. Woodworth-Ney.

By: Woodworth-Ney, LauraContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures in the American West seriesPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008Description: xxvi, 387 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9781598840513 (electronic bk.); 1598840517 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Women -- West (U.S.) -- History | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- History | Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.40978 LOC classification: HQ1438.W45 | W67 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

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