1st Edition
The Gendered West The American West
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Routledge
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Routledge
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First Published in 2001. This anthology of western history articles emphasizes the New Western History that emerged in the 1980s and adds to it a heavy dose of legal history, a field frequently ignored or misunderstood by the New Western historians. From first contact, American Indians knew that Europeans did not understand the gendered nature of America. Confusion regarding the role of women... Read more
Volume Introduction 1 Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision ; Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics, and Decolonization of History; Else Surely We Shall All Hang Separately: The Politics of Western Women's History; Race, Sex, and Region: Black Women in the American West, 1850-1920; What's Old about the New Western History: Race and Gender, Part ; American Daughters: Black Women in the West; Women and Intercultural Relations: The Case of Hispanic New Mexico and Colorado; Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: The Politics of a Mother-Daughter Relationship; Toward a Multicultural History of Women in the Western United States; Women Progressives and the Politics of Americanization in California, 1915-1920; Work, Gender, and Power in the American West ; Single Women Homesteaders: The Perplexing Case of Elinore Pruitt Stewart; Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family; We are Women Irish: Gender, Class, Religious, and Ethnic Identity in Anaconda, Montana; Amerika Nadeshiko: Japanese Immigrant Women in the United States, 1900-1924; The Liberty of Self-Degradation: Polygamy, Woman Suffrage, and Consent in Nineteenth Century America; Constitutional Convention Debates in the West: Racism, Religion, and Gender
Biography
Gordon Morris Bakken California State University, Fullerton and Brenda Farrington Long Beach City College.
