Women in the American West
By: Laura E. Woodworth-Ney.
Series: Cultures in the American West
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: ABC-CLIO
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598840506; 9781598840513
Subjects: Women -- West (U.S.) -- History; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- History; Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Finding "her story" in the American West; title: Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West; title: Women of the Southern Borderlands, 1600-1846; title: Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870; title: Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890; title: The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920; title: War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940; title: The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980; title: Late trends and new directions.