Dee Garceau-Hagen

Portraits of Women in the American West

Herausgeber: Garceau-Hagen, Dee

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents vivid and compelling biographical essays on the struggles and achievements of multicultural women from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest and California in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taken together, these stories bring to life the complex and contradictory nature of gender, race and culture in the American West. Included in this collection are essays on: an African-American entrepreneur; a northern Paiute activist; an Ursuline nun; a Chinese homesteader; and a Chippewa-Creek basketball player. Highly entertaining, the essays are conceptually sophisticated yet clearly written, and are complemented by historic photographs and illustrations. Combined, these features ensure this exceptional book has great appeal for a broad general audience as well as for serious scholars of women's history and American studies.

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415948036
• ISBN-10: 0415948037
• Artikelnr.: 22174617

Autorenporträt

Dee Garceau-Hagen is Associate Professor of History and Chair of Women's Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the co-editor of Across the GreatDivide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Dee Garceau-Hagen
1. Mining a Mythic Past: The History of Mary Ellen Pleasant
Lynn M. Hudson
2. Rape Narratives on the Northern Paiute Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca
Sexual Sovereignty
and Economic Autonomy
1844-1891
Rosemarie Stremlau
3. Frances Fuller Victor's Promotion of Strong
Independent Womanhood: Women and Marriage Reconstructed in The New Penelope
June Johnson Bube
4. We Had No Assistance from Anyone - Happier to Do It Alone: Montana
the Missions
and Mother Amadeus
Anne M. Butler
5. Finding Mary Fields: Race
Gender
and the Construction of Memory
Dee Garceau-Hagen
6. Reclaiming Polly Bemis: China's Daughter
Idaho's Legendary Pioneer
Ruthanne Lum McCunn
7. Unlikely Champion: Emma Rose Sansaver
1884-1925
Linda Peavey and Ursula Smith
8. The Curative Space of the American West in the Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Natalie Dykstra
9. Elizabeth Layton DeMary and the Culture Club: New Womanhood in a Reclamation Settlement Community
Laura Woodworth-Ney