Women and gender in the American West
By: edited by Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks.
Contributors: Irwin, Mary Ann, 1955-; Brooks, James, 1955-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Women -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Women -- Canada, Western -- History.; Indian women -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Indian women -- Canada, Western -- History.; Marriage -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Marriage -- Canada, Western -- History.
Description: "In 1990 the Coalition for Western Women's History inaugurated the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize to recognize outstanding scholarship on gender and the experiences of women in the North American West. Since then, the Jensen-Miller Prize committees have considered nearly two hundred submissions, and chosen thirteen for the skill and imagination with which the authors conducted research in original materials or reinterpreted a major problem in the field. Each piece shaped the field for future historians." "Women and Gender in the American West collects these essays for the first time on topics that range from Mormon plural wives to women's experience in Spanish Borderland slavery, from interracial marriage to the sexual exploitation of Indian women in British Columbia, from Navajo women weavers in the market economy to women's reform work in gold rush era San Francisco, from settler women in western Canada to Chicana activists in Texas. Beyond their topical interest, the essays also present the evolving analytical force of a field that has deepened and matured over time." "Professors Jensen's and Miller's classic 1980 essay "The Gentle Tamers Revisited" is reprinted here along with a new Preface in which Jensen and Miller reflect on the course of scholarship as represented in these essays. Women and Gender in the American West is a compilation of cutting edge history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Jensen-Miller prize essays from the coalition for Western women's history."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller; title: The gentle tamers revisited : new approaches to the history of women in the American west / Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller; title: At their peril : Utah law and the case of plural wives, 1850-1900 / Carol Cornwall Madsen; title: Race, gender, and intercultural relations : the case of interracial marriage / Peggy Pascoe; title: Women of color and the rewriting of western history : the discourse, politics, and decolonization of history / Antonia I. Castañeda; title: A memory sweet to soldiers : the significance of gender in the history of the American West / Susan Lee Johnson; title: Gender, race, raza / Amy Kaminsky; title: Texas newspapers and chicana workers' activism, 1919-1974 / Irene Ledesma; title: This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands / James F. Brooks; title: No place for a woman : engendering western Canadian settlement / Catherine A. Cavanaugh; title: Taming Aboriginal sexuality : gender, power, and race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 / Jean Barman; title: Going about and doing good : the politics of benevolence, welfare, and gender in San Francisco, 1850-1880" / Mary Ann Irwin; title: Strong animal passions in the gilded age : race, sex, and a senator on trial /  Lynn M. Hudson; title: Elle meets the president : weaving Navajo culture and commerce in the Southwestern tourist industry / Laura Jane Moore; title: The Eastmans and the Luhans : interracial marriage between White women and Native American men, 1875-1935 / Margaret D. Jacobs.