Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 /
During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Treating white and indigenous women's struggles as part of the same history, Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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| Col·lecció: | Gender & American culture.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=174056 |
| Sumari: | During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Treating white and indigenous women's struggles as part of the same history, Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and domestic laborers insisted upon the value of their work to "civilization," they exposed the inequalities integral to both the nation and the household. Includes analysis of texts and images created by writers, women's rights activists, reformers, anthropologists, photographers, field matrons, a |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807830321 0807830321 9780807877265 0807877263 9781429454001 1429454008 0807856959 9780807856956 |
| Accés: | Single user license access. |