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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] |
Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.0820973 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Persona (resp. second.): | MathesValerie Sherer <1941-> |
LeonardoCatherine | |
BakkenGordon Morris | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Women's National Indian Association |
ISBN: | 0-8263-5564-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910788157303321 |
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