Women and gender in the American West [electronic resource] / edited by Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks.

Contributor(s): Irwin, Mary Ann, 1955- | Brooks, James, 1955- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2004Description: x, 437 pISBN: 9780826351548 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Women -- West (U.S.) -- History | Women -- Canada, Western -- History | Indian women -- West (U.S.) -- History | Indian women -- Canada, Western -- History | Marriage -- West (U.S.) -- History | Marriage -- Canada, Western -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.4/0978 LOC classification: HQ1438.W45 | W66 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction / by Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- The gentle tamers revisited : new approaches to the history of women in the American west / Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- At their peril : Utah law and the case of plural wives, 1850-1900 / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- Race, gender, and intercultural relations : the case of interracial marriage / Peggy Pascoe -- Women of color and the rewriting of western history : the discourse, politics, and decolonization of history / Antonia I. Castaneda-- A memory sweet to soldiers : the significance of gender in the history of the American West / Susan Lee Johnson -- Gender, race, raza / Amy Kaminsky -- Texas newspapers and chicana workers' activism, 1919-1974 / Irene Ledesma -- This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands / James F. Brooks -- No place for a woman : engendering western Canadian settlement / Catherine A. Cavanaugh -- Taming Aboriginal sexuality : gender, power, and race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 / Jean Barman-- Going about and doing good : the politics of benevolence, welfare, and gender in San Francisco, 1850-1880" / Mary Ann Irwin -- Strong animal passions in the gilded age : race, sex, and a senator on trial / Lynn M. Hudson -- Elle meets the president : weaving Navajo culture and commerce in the Southwestern tourist industry / Laura Jane Moore -- The Eastmans and the Luhans : interracial marriage between White women and Native American men, 1875-1935 / Margaret D. Jacobs.
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"Jensen-Miller prize essays from the coalition for Western women's history."

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Introduction / by Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- The gentle tamers revisited : new approaches to the history of women in the American west / Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- At their peril : Utah law and the case of plural wives, 1850-1900 / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- Race, gender, and intercultural relations : the case of interracial marriage / Peggy Pascoe -- Women of color and the rewriting of western history : the discourse, politics, and decolonization of history / Antonia I. Castaneda-- A memory sweet to soldiers : the significance of gender in the history of the American West / Susan Lee Johnson -- Gender, race, raza / Amy Kaminsky -- Texas newspapers and chicana workers' activism, 1919-1974 / Irene Ledesma -- This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands / James F. Brooks -- No place for a woman : engendering western Canadian settlement / Catherine A. Cavanaugh -- Taming Aboriginal sexuality : gender, power, and race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 / Jean Barman-- Going about and doing good : the politics of benevolence, welfare, and gender in San Francisco, 1850-1880" / Mary Ann Irwin -- Strong animal passions in the gilded age : race, sex, and a senator on trial / Lynn M. Hudson -- Elle meets the president : weaving Navajo culture and commerce in the Southwestern tourist industry / Laura Jane Moore -- The Eastmans and the Luhans : interracial marriage between White women and Native American men, 1875-1935 / Margaret D. Jacobs.

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