Author: Susan Armitage
Secondary Author: Elizabeth Jameson
ISBN: 0806120673
The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were largely absent. The few female actors played supporting roles around the edges of the drama. Molded by the Victorian Cult of True Womanhood, they were passive, dependent, reluctant, and out of place. Men "won" the West. Women, against their better judgement, followed them to this "newly discovered" place and tried to re-create the amenities of the urban East. Or so the myth goes. The Women’s West challenges this picture as racist, sexist, and romantic and rejects the customary emphasis of traditional western history on the nineteenth-century frontier, discovered and defined by Anglo men. In its place The Women’s West begins the construction of a new western history as complex and varied as the people who lived it. This collection of twenty-one articles creates a multidimensional portrait of western
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publish Date: 1987
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, History / General, History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Social Science / Women's Studies
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