Format:
1 online resource (449 pages)
ISBN:
9780826351548
Content:
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.
Content:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- The Gentle Tamers Revisited: New Approaches to the History of Women in the American West -- 'At Their Peril': Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850 -- Race, Gender, and Intercultural Relations: the Case of Interracial Marriage -- Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics, and Decolonization of History -- 'A Memory Sweet to Soldiers': The Significance of Gender in the History of the 'American West' -- Gender, Race, Raza -- Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers' Activism, 1919-1974 -- 'This Evil Extends Especially . . . to the Feminine Sex': Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands -- 'No Place for a Woman': Engendering Western Canadian Settlement -- Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 -- 'Going About and Doing Good': The Politics of Benevolence, Welfare, and Gender in San Francisco, 1850-1880 -- 'Strong Animal Passions' in the Gilded Age: Race, Sex, and a Senator on Trial -- Elle Meets the President: Weaving Navajo Culture and Commerce in the Southwestern Tourist Industry -- The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935 -- Notes -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826335999
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780826335999
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1118972
