Portraits of Women in the American West

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Dee Garceau-Hagen
ISBN:
9781136076107
Related ISBNs:
9780203446805, 9780415948029, 9780415948029, 9780415948036, 9780415948036
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
286
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-05-02
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2006
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies