Description |
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
American women: images and realities |
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American women : images and realities.
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Contents |
INTRODUCTION. Women of the colonial frontier ; Women of the French and Spanish settlements ; The two great divisions of the Trans-Alleghany West ; Some factors which augmented the westward movement -- HARDSHIPS OF WOMEN ON THE TIMBER-PRAIRIE FRONTIER. The journey westward ; Their tasks and danger on the farms ; The ravages of disease ; The unsatisfactory social environment -- GAINS OF WOMEN ON THE TIMBER-PRAIRIE FRONTIER. Prestige through scarcity ; Early achievement of educational equality ; Belated recognition of her services ; Their improved legal status -- OPENING UP THE "LAST WEST". The new frontier environment for women ; The continued scarcity of women on the frontier ; Eastern suffrage leaders face west ; Women politically educating the far west -- THE LAST WEST GIVES EQUAL SUFFRAGE ITS FIRST CHANCE. The Wyoming experiment ; Mormonism and the Utah suffrage experiment ; Suffrage in Washington territory ; Wyoming the first suffrage state -- WESTERN FEMINISM IN THE NINETIES. Colorado suffrage and populists ; Mormonism and the Utah constitution of 1895 ; Borah and the Idaho suffrage movement ; Western women as political reformers -- THE WEST AND THE FINAL SUFFRAGE VICTORY. Reasons for the "Fruitless years" ; Women as Alaska pioneers ; A decade of suffrage success, 1910-1920 ; First western women in high positions -- SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RESIDUE. The continued shortage of women in the West ; Some representative women writers of the West ; Social reverberations of both frontiers ; The adaptability of western women. |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 273-286. |
Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Women -- West (U.S.)
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ISBN |
0405044801 |
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