TY  - GEN
T1  - The important things of life : women, work, and family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929
T2  - Women in the West.
A1  - Garceau-Hagen, Dee, 1955-
LA  - English
PP  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45733437
AB  - The Important Things of Life examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The discovery of coal in the 1880s caused a population boom, attracting immigrants from numerous ethnic groups. At the same time, liberalized homestead law drew sheep and cattle ranchers. Dee Garceau illuminates the economic and social importance of women in the ethnically diverse working-class towns as well as in the decentralized agricultural and ranching communities populated by native-born, middle-class Anglo-American families. Augmented by reminiscences and oral histories, this book traces the adaptations that broadened women's work roles and increased their domestic authority. Garceau also demonstrates how survival on the ranching and mining frontier heightened the value of group cooperation. Hers is a compelling portrait of the American West as a laboratory of gender role change, in which migration, relocation, and new settlement underscored the development of new social identities.
OP  - 215
CN  - F767.S9 G36 1997eb
SN  - 0585276323
SN  - 9780585276328
SN  - 0803221630
SN  - 9780803221635
KW  - Women pioneers : Wyoming : Sweetwater County : Social conditions.
KW  - Women pioneers : Wyoming : Sweetwater County : Social life and customs.
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life : Wyoming : Sweetwater County.
KW  - Sex role : Wyoming : Sweetwater County : History.
KW  - Families : Wyoming : Sweetwater County.
KW  - Sweetwater County (Wyo.) : Social conditions.
KW  - Sweetwater County (Wyo.) : Social life and customs.
KW  - Pionnières : Wyoming : Sweetwater : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Pionnières : Wyoming : Sweetwater : Mœurs et coutumes.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe : Wyoming : Sweetwater : Histoire.
KW  - Familles : Wyoming : Sweetwater.
KW  - HISTORY : State & Local.
KW  - Families
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women pioneers : Social conditions
KW  - Women pioneers : Social life and customs
KW  - Wyoming : Sweetwater County
KW  - Vrouwen.
KW  - Gezin.
KW  - Vrouwenarbeid.
KW  - United States Local History.
KW  - Regions & Countries - Americas.
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - History
ER  -