Making home work
Subtitle: domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
By: by Jane E. Simonsen.
Series: Gender and American culture; Gender & American culture.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780807830321; 9780807856956
Subjects: Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century; Home economics -- Cross-cultural studies; Social values -- West (U.S.); Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions; Indian women -- West (U.S.) -- Cultural assimilation
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Squaring the circle; title: Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement; title: The house divided : race and class in the married woman's home; title: Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation; title: The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki; title: A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field; title: Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival; title: Postscript: The map and the territory.