Portraits of Women in the American West (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Garceau-Hagen, Dee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136076183
• Artikelnr.: 39266337

Autorenporträt

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 GreatDivide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

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