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Author Simonsen, Jane E.

Title Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / Jane E. Simonsen.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NX180.S6 S572 2006    Available  ---
Description xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Arts and society.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Home economics -- Cross-cultural studies.
Home economics.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Social values -- West (U.S.)
Social values.
Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Indian women -- Cultural assimilation -- West (U.S.)
Indian women.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 0807856959 paperback alkaline paper
0807830321 cloth alkaline paper
9780807830321
9780807856956