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Titolo |
Women and gender in the American West [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks |
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-63720-0 |
0-8263-5154-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (449 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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IrwinMary Ann <1955-> |
BrooksJames <1955-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Jensen-Miller prize essays from the coalition for Western women's history." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. CastanĚeda-- 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 |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume. |
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