Women in the American West [electronic resource] / Laura E. Woodworth-Ney
- Author
- Woodworth-Ney, Laura
- Published
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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- Contents
- Finding "her story" in the American West -- Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West -- Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846 -- Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870 -- Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890 -- The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920 -- War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940 -- The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980 -- Late trends and new directions.
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- ISBN
- 9781598840506 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1598840509 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781598840513 (ebook)
1598840517 (ebook) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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