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1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Gender and American culture
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Gender & American culture.
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| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Arts and society. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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Home economics -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Home economics. |
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Social values -- West (U.S.)
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Social values. |
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Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Indian women -- Cultural assimilation -- West (U.S.)
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Indian women. |
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Assimilation (Sociology) |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Simonsen, Jane E. Making home work. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006 0807830321 9780807830321 (DLC) 2005034946 (OCoLC)62533801 |
| ISBN |
9780807877265 (electronic book) |
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0807877263 (electronic book) |
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0807830321 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807856959 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807830321 |
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9780807856956 |
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