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Women in the American West

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodworth-Ney, Laura
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.
Series:Cultures in the American West series.
Subjects:
Women > West (U.S.) > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > History.
Women > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Finding "her story" in the American West
  • Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West
  • Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846
  • Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870
  • Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890
  • The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920
  • War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940
  • The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980
  • Late trends and new directions.

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