The important things of life : women, work, and family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929 /
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...
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| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©1997.
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| سلاسل: | Women in the West.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41693 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Sweetwater County: desert highway, company town, cowboy west
- Family networks: a web of support
- "I got a girl here, would you like to meet her?": courtship, ethnicity, and community
- "My wife just doesn't like it here and I'm going to let her go back": marriage and patriarchal authority in transition
- Group partnership and cowboy myth: the gendering of ranch work
- Single women homesteaders and the meanings of independence: places on the map, places in the mind
- From Klenickso to main street: town women's work
- "Grasping at the shadow": the paradox of change.