Portraits Of Women In The American West

by Garceau-Hagen; Dee

• ISBN13: 9780415948029
• ISBN10: 0415948029
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Portraits of Women in the American Westpresents vivid biographical essays about women from the intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included in this collection are essays about an African-American entrepreneur, a northern Paiute activist, an Ursuline nun, an enslaved Chinese settler, and a Chippewa-Cree basketball player. Taken together, these women's stories bring to life the complex and contradictory nature of gender, race, and culture in the history of the American West.

Table of Contents

Mining a mythic past : the history of Mary Ellen Pleasant	p. 21
Rape narratives on the northern Paiute frontier : Sarah Winnemucca, sexual sovereignty, and economic autonomy, 1844-1891	p. 37
Frances Fuller Victor's promotion of strong, independent womanhood : women and marriage reconstructed in "The new Penelope"	p. 63
"We had no assistance from anyone - happier to do it alone" : Montana, the missions, and Mother Amadeus	p. 91
Finding Mary Fields : race, gender and the construction of memory	p. 121
Reclaiming Polly Bemis : China's daughter, Idaho's legendary pioneer	p. 157
Unlikely champion : Emma Rose Sansaver, 1884-1925	p. 179
The curative space of the American West in the life and letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart	p. 209
Elizabeth Layton DeMary and the Rupert Culture Club : new womanhood in a reclamation settlement community	p. 233
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