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An intimate view of frontier women, Anglo and Indian, and the communities they forged.

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Twelve essays - arranged chronologically within sub-regions - draw upon innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, including gender/transgender studies, decolonization of Native peoples, and the influence of nation states. Richly grounded in the particular, these essays also contextualize the stories of specific women and locales within larger social, political, and economic trends. Individually and collectively, they reveal the int...

The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. From prehistory to the present, the Great Plains have played a significant role in the lives of women who moved to or across them, cleaving to cultural ideas and patterns while adapting to the rigors of the region. Twelve essays--arranged chronologically within sub-regions--draw upon innovative th...

?The stereotypical American woman after suffrage is a white, middle-class woman who goes from the emancipated glory of being a flapper to the staid satisfactions of being a housewife. The image suggests that women themselves rejected feminism and sank into political apathy and unconsciousness. This first-class collection of historical essays revises and rejects this view, pointing out the limitations of the view of suffrage as either solving a...

Joan M. Jensen is a professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University. She is the author of several books, including Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850¿1925. Michelle Wick Patterson is an associate professor of history at Mount St. Mary¿s University. She is the author of Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music (Nebraska, 2010).¿¿

Swedish domestic worker Emina Johnson witnessed the great Peshtigo fire in 1871, Cherokee nurse Isabella Wolfe served the Lac du Flambeau reservation for decades, the author's own grandmother, Matilda Schopp, was one of numerous immigrants who eked out a living on the Wisconsin cutover. Calling This Place Home tells the stories of these and many other Native and settler women during Wisconsin's frontier era. Noted historian Joan M. Jensen spen...

Although millions of women in the United States have worked on the land, With These Hands is the first history of their work. This collection begins with the agricultural work of Native American women, and traces to the eighties their experience as well as that of Euro-American, Hispanic, Black, and Asian women who have struggled to remain on the land. Rural women's complex lives emerge through letters, songs, fiction, official documents, jour...