Women and gender in the American West / edited by Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Irwin, Mary Ann, 1955-; Brooks, James, 1955-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 437 p.
• Notes: "Jensen-Miller prize essays from the coalition for Western women's history."

Table of 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. Castaneda-- 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.