Author : Victoria Sheppard
Release : 2010
Genre : Sex role
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Deviance and Respectability in Women 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 Deviance and Respectability in Women of the American West write by Victoria Sheppard. This book was released on 2010. Deviance and Respectability in Women of the American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The respectable woman of the West did not necessarily meet Eastern standards of the ideal woman... In the nineteenth century, gender roles established well-defined boundaries in order for men and women to maintain respectability."-- [P.1] "Frontier life was basically a family enterprise. Each unit needed to be able to function independently without the help of other people. This isolation from outside help often necessitated women crossing over into the male-dominated sphere, performing unladylike chores thereby changing the scope for what was tolerable for women in the West...The blurring of original gender roles due to necessity was a fundamental issue in the West. Women had to learn to be self-sufficient which entailed them doing work or acting in ways originally considered unfeminine or unladylike. "--[P. 12]