Writing the Range

by Jameson, Elizabeth; Armitage, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780806129525
• ISBN10: 0806129522
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

A major goal of the New Western History is to chronicle the vast diversity of western experience. In this pathbreaking anthology, coeditors Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage-who brought us "The Women's West in 1987"-meet that challenge by bringing together twenty-nine essays that present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class. In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men. Buffalo roamed, deer and antelope played, and women's voices were never heard. Writing the Range allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to western cities during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles, who organized to resist environmental dangers to their community. A valuable introduction to the rapidly changing field of western history, Writing the Range explains clearly how race, class, and culture are constructed and connected. The first section examines issues raised by more than a decade of multicultural western women's histories; following are six chronological sections spanning four centures. Each section offers a short introduction connecting is essays and placing them in analytic and historical perspective. Clearly written and accessible, Writing the Range makes a major contribution in ethnic history, women's history, and interpretations of the American West.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Editors' Introduction	3	(14)
Part One: Perspectives	17	(64)
1. Empowering "The Welder": A Historical Survey of Women of Color in the West	21	(21)
Marian Perales
2. Native American Women: Changing Statuses, Changing Interpretations	42	(27)
Ramona Ford
3. Race, Gender, and Intercultural Relations: The Case of Interracial Marriage	69	(12)
Peggy Pascoe
Part Two: Frontiers	81	(62)
4. "A Poor Widow Burdened with Children": Widows and Land in Colonial New Mexico	85	(12)
Yolanda Chavez Leyva
5. "This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex": Captivity and Identity in New Mexico, 1700-1846	97	(25)
James F. Brooks
6. When Strangers Met: Sex and Gender on Three Frontiers	122	(21)
Albert L. Hurtado
Part Three: Resisting Conquest	143	(110)
7. The Women of Lincoln County, 1860-1900	147	(25)
Darlis A. Miller
8. "I See What I Have Done": The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'Klallam Woman	172	(16)
Coll-Peter Thrush
Robert H. Keller, Jr.
9. "Yo Sola Aprendi": Mexican Women's Personal Narratives from Nineteenth-Century California	188	(14)
Genaro Padilla
10. Gender and the "Citizen Indian"	202	(28)
Wendy L. Wall
11. Resistance to Rescue: The Indians of Bahapki and Mrs. Annie E. K. Bidwell	230	(23)
Margaret D. Jacobs
Part Four: Newcomers	253	(96)
12. Beyond the Stereotypes: Chinese Pioneer Women	258	(16)
Annette White-Parks
13. "I Got a Girl Here, Would You Like to Meet Her?": Courtship, Ethnicity, and Community in Sweetwater County, 1900-1925	274	(24)
Dee Garceau
14. Euskaldun Andreak: Basque Women as Hard Workers, Hoteleras, and Matriarchs	298	(13)
Jeronima Echeverria
15. "We Are Women Irish": Gender, Class, Religious, and Ethnic Identity in Anaconda, Montana	311	(23)
Laurie Mercier
16. Drag's Life: Women, Gender, and Cross-Dressing in the Nineteenth-Century West	334	(15)
Evelyn A. Schlatter
Part Five: Seeking Empowerment	349	(108)
17. Dead Ends or Gold Mines? Using Missionary Records in Mexican American Women's History	354	(18)
Vicki L. Ruiz
18. Lifting as We Climb: African American Women's Clubs of Denver, 1890-1925	372	(21)
Lynda F. Dickson
19. "Save the Babies!": American Indian Women, Assimilation Policy, and Scientific Motherhood, 1912-1918	393	(27)
Lisa E. Emmerich
20. Introduction to Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America	410	(25)
Sucheng Chan
21. Alice Dickerson Montemayor: Feminism and Mexican American Politics in the 1930s	435	(22)
Cynthia E. Orozco
Part Six: Cultures and Identities	457	(56)
22. Desperately Seeking "Deirdre": Gender Roles, Multicultural Relations, and Nisei Women Writers of the 1930s	461	(14)
Valerie Matsumoto
23. Dolores Del Rio and Lupe Velez: Images on and off the Screen, 1925-1944	475	(18)
Alicia Rodriquez-Estrada
24. Tsugiki, a Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington State	493	(20)
Gail M. Nomura
Part Seven: Urban Frontiers	513	(88)
25. "Not in Somebody's Kitchen": African American Women Workers in Richmond, California, and the Impact of World War II	517	(16)
Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
26. Changing Woman Meets Madonna: Navajo Women's Networks and Sex-Gender Values in Transition	533	(20)
Christine Conte
27. Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activits: "Mothers of East Los Angeles"	553	(16)
Mary Pardo
28. Southeast Asian Refugee Women, War, and Resettlement	569	(16)
Terri Bryan
29. "My Mother Was a Mover": African American Seminole Women in Brackettville, Texas 1914-1964	585	(16)
B. Ann Rodgers
Linda Schott
Selected Bibliographies	601	(30)
Dedra S. McDonald
Evelyn A. Schlatter
Juneal Leversee
General Bibliography	601	(1)
African American Women	602	(6)
Asian American Women	608	(5)
Euro-American Ethnic Women	613	(6)
Native American Women	616	(5)
Latinas/Hispanas	621	(10)
List of Contributors	631	(6)
Index	637