Frontier Women: "Civilizing" the West? 1840-1880
by Julie Jeffrey
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Frontier Women is the classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. It is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to continental expansion. In this new edition, Julie Roy Jeffrey has tapped new sources and expanded her analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of women of color. In this new edition of a classic work, Julie Roy Jeffrey maintains the essential core of her account of the show more extraordinarily diverse contributions women made to the development of the American frontier. Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of Native American, Hispanic, Chinese, and African American women. show lessTags
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- 1979
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- Nonfiction, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
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- 301.41 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
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- HQ1438 .W45 .J43 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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