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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主要作者: Simonsen, Jane E.
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
叢編:Gender & American culture.
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書本目錄:
  • Introduction: Squaring the circle
  • Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement
  • The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home
  • Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation
  • The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki
  • A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field
  • Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival
  • Postscript: The map and the territory.