Women In The American West

by Woodworth-Ney, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781598840506
• ISBN10: 1598840509
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West.

Table of Contents

Maps
Finding "Her Story" in the American West	p. 1
Buffalo Bill, Frederick Jackson Turner, and the Male Frontier	p. 2
New West, Old West, and the Women's West	p. 6
The Literary Critique	p. 10
Her Story and the Scholarship of Gender	p. 11
The Multicultural Women's West	p. 12
Getting to the Source of Her Story	p. 14
Visible in Everything, but Invisible to History: Native American Women in the North American West	p. 33
The Problem with Native American History	p. 35
Counting the Invisible	p. 37
Telling History	p. 40
Sacagawea's West	p. 42
Women of the Great Plains	p. 46
Women of the Fur Trade	p. 50
The Custom of the Country	p. 52
Women of the Southern Borderlands, 1600-1846	p. 65
An Extensive Borderland	p. 65
Ancient Women of the Southern Borderlands	p. 67
The Hohokam	p. 69
The Ancient Puebloan (Anasazi)	p. 70
Pueblo Women of the Southwest	p. 72
Women in Spanish New Mexico	p. 74
Gender in Spanish California	p. 82
Women's Resistance	p. 84
Disease and Survival	p. 88
Gender and Manifest Destiny, 1830-1870	p. 99
Gender, Jeffersonian Ideology, and Manifest Destiny	p. 102
Sentimental Domesticity	p. 104
Manifest Domesticity and Texas	p. 107
"Civilizing" Native Texas	p. 114
White Women and the Acquisition of the Oregon Country	p. 117
Women on Western Trails	p. 126
Polygamy, Prostitution, and Women in Mormon and Mining Settlements, 1840-1890	p. 141
Mormon Migration	p. 147
The Mormon Trail	p. 150
Slavery and Race in Mormon Country	p. 151
Women, Power, and Polygamy	p. 153
Rush Towns and Society	p. 159
Keeping House, Selling Sex, and Defining Home	p. 160
Native Women and Commerce in Mining Towns	p. 169
Aftermath of the Bear Rivet Massacre	p. 172
The "New Woman," Mobility, and Western Space 1877-1920	p. 179
Introduction	p. 179
Reform and the Indian Question	p. 183
Suffrage	p. 191
Technology	p. 193
Labor and Immigration	p. 198
Tourism, Leisure, and the Modern House	p. 206
War, Depression, and the Creation of the West 1914-1940	p. 219
Introduction	p. 219
Influenza and Disease	p. 220
Health, Tourism, and the Plague	p. 222
Gender, Women's Labor, and Western Tourism	p. 224
Creating the West	p. 233
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Racism, and the WKKK	p. 238
Depression on the Plains and Prairies	p. 243
Women's Labor Organizations	p. 251
The Gendered Wartime and Postwar West, 1941-1980	p. 263
Work and World War II	p. 264
War Brides	p. 268
Japanese Internment Camps	p. 270
The Postwar West	p. 280
Labor Activism	p. 282
Freeways, Babies, and Boom	p. 284
The Nuclear West	p. 290
Politics of Conservatism	p. 294
Mobility, Activism, and Home	p. 298
Late Trends and New Directions	p. 313
Definitions	p. 316
Demographic Shifts	p. 319
New Directions	p. 321
Chronology	p. 329
Glossary	p. 337
Index	p. 353
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