Encyclopedia of Women in the American West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Women in the American West write by Gordon Moris Bakken. This book was released on 2003-06-26. Encyclopedia of Women in the American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American women have followed their "manifest destiny" since the 1800's, moving West to homestead, found businesses, author novels and write poetry, practice medicine and law, preach and perform missionary work, become educators, artists, judges, civil rights activists, and many other important roles spurred on by their strength, spirit, and determination.
Encyclopedia of the American West
Encyclopedia of the American West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of the American West write by Alan Axelrod. This book was released on 1996. Encyclopedia of the American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Encyclopedia focuses on the people and peoples of the West, approaching the region as a collection of multiethnic frontiers and as the spawning ground for an array of industries and enterprises that each gave rise to its own culture and carried with it important ecological consequences."--p. xi.
The Gendered West
The Gendered West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gendered West write by Gordon Morris Bakken. This book was released on 2013-09-13. The Gendered West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2001. This anthology of western history articles emphasizes the New Western History that emerged in the 1980s and adds to it a heavy dose of legal history, a field frequently ignored or misunderstood by the New Western historians. From first contact, American Indians knew that Europeans did not understand the gendered nature of America. Confusion regarding the role of women within tribes and bands continued from first contact well into the late nineteenth century. The journal articles that follow give readers a true sense of the gendered West. Racial and ethnic heritage played a role in female experience whether Hispanic, Japanese or Irish. Women's work was part western history, but women did not confine themselves to plow handles or brothels. Women were very much a part of most occupations or in the process of breaking down barriers of access. They worked in the fields for wages as well as for family welfare and prosperity. Women demanded access to the professions whether teaching or law, accounting or medicine. The process of eliminating barriers varied in time and space, but the struggle was constant. Yet the story of women in polygamous Utah or Idaho was different and an integral part of the fabric of western history. Because of their beliefs and practices these women suffered at the hands of the federal government and persevered.
Plains Women
Plains Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plains Women write by Paula Bartley. This book was released on 1991-01. Plains Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Briefly examines the experiences of women pioneers in the Great Plains, as this country expanded westward in the nineteenth century.
A Place to Grow
A Place to Grow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Place to Grow write by Glenda Riley. This book was released on 1992. A Place to Grow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Did the West offer women a place to grow, providing opportunities for more equitable social relationships, greater political rights, and economic independence? The answer is found in this unique blend of more than 90 primary documents, in which the women's own words tell the story, combined with 11 selected essays by noted historian Glenda Riley. A number of themes pervade the articles and documents presented here. The selections discuss stereotypes of western women, the ethnic and racial backgrounds of western women, women's migration experiences, female migrants' relations with Native Americans, and women's contributions inside and outside the home as the West was settled."--Goodreads
