Women on the North American Plains
By: edited by Renee M. Laegreid and Sandra K. Mathews ; foreword by Joan M. Jensen
Series: Plains histories; Plains histories
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780896727335; 9780896727281
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; Sex role; Frontier and pioneer life; History
Description: "The first comprehensive work highlighting the diversity of women's experiences on the North American Plains; twelve essays present women's perspectives from prehistory to the present, across the northern, central, and southern plains"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the absence of trees and women's voices : a plainsword / Joan M. Jensen; title: Introduction to the collection / Renee M. Laegreid; title: Sacagawea, a vignette / Renee M. Laegreid; title: Introduction to the Northern Plains / Elaine Lindgren; title: Living with the land : women on the Northern Plains to 1803 / Sandra K. Mathews and Renee M. Laegreid; title: Glimpsing the lives of women on the Northern Great Plains, 1803-1862 : sources and perspectives / Gretchen A. Albers; title: "Willing challengers" : women's experiences on the Northern Plains, 1862-1930 / Andrea G. Radke-Moss; title: Place, gender, ethnicity, and the role of the nation in the lives of Northern Plains women / Sarah R. Payne; title: Mari Sandoz, a vignette / Shannon D. Smith; title: Introduction to the Central Plains / Roger Davis; title: Mothers, cultivators, and traders : Central Plains indigenous women to 1803 / Rebecca Bales; title: "Poor old thing, I hope she's 'comph' at last" : crossing gender boundaries and identities on the Great Plains, 1850-1990 / Peter Boag; title: Mormon women at winter quarters / Dee Garceau; title: Riding the winds of change : education and activism on the Central Plains, 1930 to the present / Renee M. Laegreid; title: Frieda, a vignette / Sandra Scofield; title: Introduction to the Southern Plains / Sandra J. McBride; title: Patricia de la Garza de León, Spanish/Texan pioneer / Caroline Castillo Crimm; title: Killing winged Celia : gender, race, and culture in the Southern Plains / Donna L. Akers; title: Civilizations of the Southern Plains, 1862-1930 / Jean Stuntz; title: Risky business : Southern Plains women and the tradition of place / Linda W. Reese.