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Uses selections from diaries, public records, letters, interviews, and fiction to describe the experiences of women in the West, including Indians, servants, waitresses, prostitutes, and farmers.
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The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were largely absent. The few female actors played supporting roles around the edges of the drama. Molded by the Victorian Cult of True Womanhood, they were passive, dependent, reluctant, and out of place. Men "won" the West. Women, against their better judgement, followed them to this "newly discovered" place and tried to re-create the amenities of the urban East.
Or so the myth goes. The Women's West challenges this picture as racist, sexist, and romantic and rejects the customary emphasis of traditional western history on the nineteenth-century frontier, discovered and defined by Anglo men. In its place The Women's West begins the construction of a new western history as complex and varied as the people who lived it.
This collection of twenty-one articles creates a multidimensional portrait of western women. The pioneer women presented here were actors in their own lives, not passive participants in their husbands' ventures. They were hardy seekers who came west, sometimes alone, in search of jobs, freedom, or land to homestead. They were political activists who worked tirelessly to win the right to vote and to hold political office. They adapted in practical ways to their own and their families' economic and personal needs in a new environment.
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《书目》(Booklist)书评
The stereotypical picture of early American history generally excludes the exploits of women. Editors Armitage and Jameson have compiled a work that revises this one-dimensional, historically inaccurate view. Using original sources (diaries, letters, etc.) and modern research methods, the authors of these 21 extended essays offer a multicultural perspective that includes all races and classes of people. Specific topics include women's influence in the fur-trade society, women's role as portrayed in pioneer stories, ``Harvey girl'' waitresses, child rearing on the mining frontier, and the women's suffrage movement in Colorado. This readable work will find an interested audience in the public library. To include black-and-white illustrations. Chapter notes; to be indexed. JMM. 305.4'0978 Women West (U.S.) History / Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) History / Women U.S. History 19th century [CIP] 86-14672
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Careful editing of this volume as a whole as well as of individual essays is evident in the cohesiveness of this collection on women's experience in the American and Canadian West. Beginning with essays that debunk myths about women in the West, and moving to descriptions of interactions between Euramericans and Native Americans, the volume also covers the variety of ways in which women came to terms with the West. The concluding essays expand the focus of attention beyond the historical into the present, beyond Euramerican women to Italian-Americans and Chicanas, and includes discussion of the larger changes that helped shaped the lives of western women. It is impossible to imagine teaching American women's history without this collection. It should join Julie Roy Jeffrey's Frontier Women (CH, Dec '79), Polly Welts Kaufman's Women Teachers on the Frontier (CH, Jun '84), Annette Kolodny's The Land Before Her (CH, May '84), and Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, ed. by Lillian Schlisse (CH, Jul '82) in the undergraduate core collection on women's history. Highly recommended.-S.H. Boyd, Princeton Theological Seminary
《书目》(Booklist)书评
The stereotypical picture of early American history generally excludes the exploits of women. Editors Armitage and Jameson have compiled a work that revises this one-dimensional, historically inaccurate view. Using original sources (diaries, letters, etc.) and modern research methods, the authors of these 21 extended essays offer a multicultural perspective that includes all races and classes of people. Specific topics include women's influence in the fur-trade society, women's role as portrayed in pioneer stories, ``Harvey girl'' waitresses, child rearing on the mining frontier, and the women's suffrage movement in Colorado. This readable work will find an interested audience in the public library. To include black-and-white illustrations. Chapter notes; to be indexed. JMM. 305.4'0978 Women West (U.S.) History / Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) History / Women U.S. History 19th century [CIP] 86-14672
Choice 评论
Careful editing of this volume as a whole as well as of individual essays is evident in the cohesiveness of this collection on women's experience in the American and Canadian West. Beginning with essays that debunk myths about women in the West, and moving to descriptions of interactions between Euramericans and Native Americans, the volume also covers the variety of ways in which women came to terms with the West. The concluding essays expand the focus of attention beyond the historical into the present, beyond Euramerican women to Italian-Americans and Chicanas, and includes discussion of the larger changes that helped shaped the lives of western women. It is impossible to imagine teaching American women's history without this collection. It should join Julie Roy Jeffrey's Frontier Women (CH, Dec '79), Polly Welts Kaufman's Women Teachers on the Frontier (CH, Jun '84), Annette Kolodny's The Land Before Her (CH, May '84), and Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, ed. by Lillian Schlisse (CH, Jul '82) in the undergraduate core collection on women's history. Highly recommended.-S.H. Boyd, Princeton Theological Seminary