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Title The Women's West / edited and with introductions by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1987]
©1987

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  978. AR55    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  978 WOMAN'S    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.4 W872WW    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents pt. 1. Myths: Through women's eyes: a new view of the West / Susan Armitage -- The way we weren't: images of women and men in cowboy art / Corlann Gee Bush -- Illusion and illumination: visual images of American Indian women in the West / Patricia Albers and William James -- pt. 2. Meetings: The role of native women in the creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1830 / Sylvia Van Kirk -- Beyond princess and squaw: army officers' perceptions of Indian women / Sherry L. Smith -- Sharing bed and board: cohabitation and cultural difference in central Arizona mining towns, 1863-1873 / Susan L. Johnson -- pt. 3. Emotional continuities: Laura, Ma, Mary, Carrie, and Grace: Western women as portrayed by Laura Ingalls Wilder / Kathryn Adam -- Violence against women: power dynamics in literature of the Western family / Melody Graulich -- Lena Olmstead and Oscar Phillips: love and marriage / Elizabeth Hampsten -- pt. 4. Coming to terms with the West: Women as workers, women as civilizers: true womanhood in the American West / Elizabeth Jameson -- Homesteading in northeastern Colorado, 1873-1920: sex roles and women's experience / Katherine Harris -- Beyond baby doe: child rearing on the mining frontier / Elliott West -- The private lives of public women: prostitution in Butte, Montana, 1878-1917 / Mary Murphy -- Essential servants: immigrant domestics on the Canadian prairies, 1885-1930 / Norma J. Milton -- Waitresses in the trans-Mississipp West: "pretty waiter girls," Harvey girls, and union maids / Mary Lee Spence -- pt. 5. Expanding our focus: Distinctions in Western women's experience: ethnicity, class, and social change / Rosalinda Méndez González -- The "girls" from Syracuse: sex role negotiations of Kansas women in politics, 1887-1890 / Rosalind Urbach Moss -- Networking on the frontier: the Colorado Women's Suffrage Movement, 1876-1893 / Carolyn Stefanco -- The myth of the urban village: women, work, and family among Italian-Americans in twentieth century California / Micaela di Leonardo -- The impact of "Sun Belt industrialization" on Chicanas / Patricia Zavella -- Western women's history: a challenge for the future / Suzan Shown Harjo.
Subject Women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Indexed Term United States Western states Women, 1800-1900
Added Author Armitage, Susan H. (Susan Hodge), 1937-
Jameson, Elizabeth.
ISBN 0806120436 alkaline paper
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