Women's West

Name: Women's West
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ISBN: 9780806120676

ISBN-10: 0806120673

ISBN-13: 9780806120676

Edition: N/A

Authors: Susan Armitage, Elizabeth Jameson

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 5/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English