| Description |
1 online resource (x, 437 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- The gentle tamers revisited : new approaches to the history of women in the American west / Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller -- At their peril : Utah law and the case of plural wives, 1850-1900 / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- Race, gender, and intercultural relations : the case of interracial marriage / Peggy Pascoe -- Women of color and the rewriting of western history : the discourse, politics, and decolonization of history / Antonia I. Castañeda -- A memory sweet to soldiers : the significance of gender in the history of the American West / Susan Lee Johnson -- Gender, race, raza / Amy Kaminsky -- Texas newspapers and chicana workers' activism, 1919-1974 / Irene Ledesma -- This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands / James F. Brooks -- No place for a woman : engendering western Canadian settlement / Catherine A. Cavanaugh -- Taming Aboriginal sexuality : gender, power, and race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 / Jean Barman -- Going about and doing good : the politics of benevolence, welfare, and gender in San Francisco, 1850-1880" / Mary Ann Irwin -- Strong animal passions in the gilded age : race, sex, and a senator on trial / Lynn M. Hudson -- Elle meets the president : weaving Navajo culture and commerce in the Southwestern tourist industry / Laura Jane Moore -- The Eastmans and the Luhans : interracial marriage between White women and Native American men, 1875-1935 / Margaret D. Jacobs |
| Summary |
The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume |
| Notes |
"Jensen-Miller prize essays from the coalition for Western women's history." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Women -- Canada, Western -- History
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Indian women -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Indian women -- Canada, Western -- History
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Marriage -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Marriage -- Canada, Western -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Indian women
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Marriage
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Women
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Western Canada
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Irwin, Mary Ann, 1955-
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Brooks, James, 1955-
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| ISBN |
9780826351548 |
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0826351549 |
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1283637200 |
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9781283637206 |
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6613949663 |
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9786613949660 |
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