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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812590203321

Titolo

The Women's National Indian Association : a history / / edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes ; designed by Catherine Leonardo ; contributors Gordon Morris Bakken [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8263-5564-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

320.0820973

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation

Women - Political activity - United States - History - 19th century

Women political activists - United States - History - 19th century

Women social reformers - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword / Margaret Connell Szasz; Introduction: What Is a Woman Worth? / Larry E. Burgess; PART ONE: The Beginning; 1: Mary Bonney, Amelia Quinton, and the Formative Years / Valerie Sherer Mathes; 2: "Shall We Have a Periodical?": The Indian's Friend / Lori Jacobson; PART TWO: The WNIA and Domesticity; 3: "Environed by Civilization": WNIA Home-Building and Loan Department / Lori Jacobson; 4: Promoting Homemaking on the Reservations: WNIA Field Matrons / Lisa E. Emmerich; 5: WNIA Missions in the South / Rose Stremlau

6: Making and Marketing Baskets in California / Cathleen D. CahillPART THREE: WNIA Auxiliaries; 7: The Banner Association: Twenty-Five Years in Massachusetts / Valerie Sherer Mathes; 8: WNIA Chapters in the South / Rose Stremlau; 9: The Redlands Indian Association: The WNIA in Southern California / Valerie Sherer Mathes; PART FOUR: Contextualizing the History of Women's Indian Reform Work; 10: "Noble Women Not a Few": The Lake Mohonk Conferences / Cathleen D. Cahill; 11: The WNIA in the Context of Women's History / Helen M. Bannan; 12: The WNIA and the Erotics of Reform / Lori Jacobson



ConclusionAfterword: Gordon Morris Bakken; Appendix: WNIA Missionary Stations / Valerie Sherer Mathes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.