Frontiers of femininity
Subtitle: a new historical geography of the nineteenth-century American West
By: Karen M. Morin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Space, place, and society
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780815631675
Subjects: Feminists -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women's studies -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The frontiers of femininity; title: Trains through the plains : the great plains landscape of Victorian women travelers; title: Peak practices : Englishwomen's heroic adventures in the nineteenth-century American West; title: Gender, nature, empire : women naturalists in nineteenth-century British women's travel literature (with Jeanne Kay Guelke); title: Surveying Britain's informal empire : Rose Kingsley's 1872 reconnaissance for the Mexican National Railway; title: British women travelers and constructions of racial difference across the nineteenth-century American West; title: Postcolonialism and Native American geographies : the letters of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899; title: Mining empire : journalists in the American West, circa 1870; title: Afterword: Imprints on a new historical geography of North America.