TY - GEN T1 - Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 T2 - Gender & American culture. A1 - Simonsen, Jane E. LA - English PP - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm82479976 AB - 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 OP - 266 CN - NX180.S6 S572 2006eb SN - 9780807830321 SN - 0807830321 SN - 9780807877265 SN - 0807877263 SN - 9781429454001 SN - 1429454008 SN - 0807856959 SN - 9780807856956 KW - Arts and society : West (U.S.) : History : 19th century. KW - Arts and society : West (U.S.) : History : 20th century. KW - Home economics : Cross-cultural studies. KW - Social values : West (U.S.) KW - Women : West (U.S.) : Social conditions. KW - Indian women : Cultural assimilation : West (U.S.) KW - Indians : Cultural assimilation : West (U.S.) KW - Electronic books. KW - Femmes des Peuples autochtones : Acculturation : États-Unis (Ouest) KW - Peuples autochtones : Acculturation : États-Unis (Ouest) KW - Femmes : États-Unis (Ouest) : Conditions sociales. KW - Valeurs sociales : États-Unis (Ouest) KW - Arts et société : États-Unis (Ouest) : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Arts et société : États-Unis (Ouest) : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Économie domestique : Études transculturelles. KW - Livres numériques. KW - e-books. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Women's Studies. KW - Indians : Cultural assimilation KW - Arts and society KW - Home economics KW - Social values KW - Women : Social conditions KW - West United States KW - Frauenarbeit KW - Indianerin KW - Heimarbeit KW - Volkskunst KW - USA : Weststaaten KW - 1800-1999 KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - History ER -