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

• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/0978
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: IrwinMary Ann <1955-> BrooksJames <1955->
• Note generali: "Jensen-Miller prize essays from the coalition for Western women's history."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. Castañeda-- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and gender in the American West
• ISBN: 1-283-63720-0; 0-8263-5154-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781619403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II