Women And Gender In The Western Past To 1815

Author : Katherine L. French
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780618246250
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender written by Katherine L. French and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book] is a survey of women's history in Western Civilization from the earliest days of human experience to the present. It examines women of all classes, religions, and ethnicities and provides balanced coverage of political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. The text focuses on five major themes: the relationship between historical events and ideas and women's lives; the history of the family and sexuality; the social construction of gender; the differences between cultural ideas about women and the lives of actual women; women's perceptions of themselves and their roles.-Back cover.

Author : Katherine L. French
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin College Division
ISBN 13 : 9780618246243
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in the Western Past: To 1815 written by Katherine L. French and published by Houghton Mifflin College Division. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume survey of the history of women in western civilization spans prehistory to the present. While devoting attention to women of all classes, religions, and ethnicities, the text examines political, economic, intellectual, and social history through the lens of gender. The narrative emphasizes women's agency over oppression and makes cutting-edge scholarship in women's history accessible to a wide audience. Five major themes run throughout the narrative: the relationship between key historical events and ideas and women's lives, the history of the family and sexuality, the social construction of gender, cultural assumptions about women (versus their actual lives), and self perception and women's place in western societies. A rich collection of primary sources and biographies reinforces these themes. Sources from the Past introduce students to primary sources on women's history, from the poetry of Sappho and Sarah Fyge Egerton, to proposals on women's rights during the French Revolution and the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, to modern documents, including an oral history of the Holocaust and an excerpt from the Kinsey Report. The Women's Lives feature tells the stories of interesting women, and engages students through the use of biography. Women profiled include the early Christian martyr Saint Perpetua, 19th century Russian activist Sofia Perovskaia, Harlem Renaissance writer Jessie Redman Fauset, and the Nobel-prize winning chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Maps and photos enhance the learning experience by introducing students to geography and visual sources. Each chapter includes an extensive Notes section documenting the wealth of recent scholarship on women and gender. A short list of Suggested Readings provides a useful starting point for student exploration.

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223270
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Women in the Old West written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and previously untold history of the American West, as seen by the pioneering women who advocated for their rights amidst challenges of migration and settlement, and transformed the country in the process Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by adventure, opportunity, and the spirit of Manifest Destiny. These settlers soon realized that survival in a new society required women to compromise eastern sensibilities and take on some of their husbands’ responsibilities. At a time when women had very few legal or economic--much less political--rights, these women soon proved just as essential as men to westward expansion. During the mid-nineteenth century, the traditional domestic model of womanhood shifted to include public service, with the women of the West becoming town mothers who established schools, churches, and philanthropies, while also coproviding for their families. They claimed their own homesteads and graduated from new, free coeducational colleges that provided career alternatives to marriage. In 1869, the men of the Wyoming Territory gave women the right to vote--partly to persuade more of them to move west--but with this victory in hand, western suffragists fought relentlessly until the rest of the region followed suit. By 1914 western women became the first American women to vote--a right still denied to women in every eastern state. In New Women in the Old West, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the riveting history of the little-known women--the White, Black, and Asian settlers, and the Native Americans and Hispanics they displaced--who played monumental roles in one of America's most transformative periods. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, Gallagher weaves together the striking legacy of the persistent individuals who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies, but also played a vital, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement and forever redefined the "American woman."

Author : Laura E. Woodworth-Ney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598840517
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the American West written by Laura E. Woodworth-Ney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West. Twenty years after many Western historians first turned their attention toward women, Women in the American West synthesizes the development of women's history in the region, introduces readers to current thinking on the real experiences of Western women, and explores their influence on the course of expansion and development since the 19th century. Women in the American West offers vivid portrayals of women as pioneers, prostitutes, teachers, disguised soldiers, nurses, entrepreneurs, immigrants, and ordinary citizens caught up in extraordinary times. Organized chronologically, each chapter emphasizes important themes central to gender and women's history, including women's mobility, women at home, wage labor, immigration, marriage, political participation, and involvement in wars at home and abroad. With this revealing volume, readers will see that women had a far more profound effect on the course of history in the Western United States than is commonly thought.

Author : Helga H. Harriman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
ISBN 13 : 9781561342457
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Western Heritage written by Helga H. Harriman and published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique publication that tells the unfolding story of women's place in the evolution of Western civilization from prehistory to the present. This book surveys the changing role of women throughout history, bringing together aspects of political, economic, religious, intellectual, artistic, and social history, it traces the contributions of women--and barriers placed upon them--in public and private life. In providing a consistently chronological treatment, as well as comprehensive coverage of both Europe and North America, this textbook differs from other surveys of women's history currently available.

Author : Frances Richardson Keller
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Views of Women's Lives in Western Tradition written by Frances Richardson Keller and published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the status of women as viewed in Western literature, philosophy and the performing arts.

Author : Victoria Lamont
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803290330
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Westerns written by Victoria Lamont and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who were active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the western genre as we now know it emerged. Victoria Lamont offers detailed studies of some of the many women who helped shape the western. Their novels bear the classic hallmarks of the western—cowboys, schoolmarms, gun violence, lynchings, cattle branding—while also placing female characters at the center of their western adventures and improvising with western conventions in surprising and ingenious ways. In Emma Ghent Curtis’s The Administratrix a widow disguises herself as a cowboy and infiltrates the cowboy gang responsible for lynching her husband. Muriel Newhall’s pulp serial character, Sheriff Minnie, comes to the rescue of a steady stream of defenseless female victims. B. M. Bower, Katharine Newlin Burt, and Frances McElrath use cattle branding as a metaphor for their feminist critiques of patriarchy. In addition to recovering the work of these and other women authors of popular westerns, Lamont uses original archival analysis of the western-fiction publishing scene to overturn the long-standing myth of the western as a male-dominated genre.

Author : Mary Ann Irwin
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826335999
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in the American West written by Mary Ann Irwin and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.

Author : June K. Burton
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896725591
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon and the Woman Question written by June K. Burton and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examination of predominantly primary sources focuses on discourses of women and women's issues in light of the prevailing view of the relationship between the physical and the moral in feminine bodies and minds. Burton discusses France's first national system of midwifery education, women's medicine and surgery, and medical law"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Karen Hagemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199948720
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 written by Karen Hagemann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, the history of military and war has focused predominantly on men as historical agents, disregarding gender and its complex interrelationships with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how conceptions of gender have contributed to the shaping of war and the military and were transformed by them. Covering the major periods in warfare since the seventeenth century, the Handbook focuses on Europe and the long-term processes of colonization and empire-building in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia. Thirty-two essays written by leading international scholars explore the cultural representations of war and the military, war mobilization, and war experiences at home and on the battle front. Essays address the gendered aftermath and memories of war, as well as gendered war violence. Essays also examine movements to regulate and prevent warfare, the consequences of participation in the military for citizenship, and challenges to ideals of Western military masculinity posed by female, gay, and lesbian soldiers and colonial soldiers of color. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 offers an authoritative account of the intricate relationships between gender, warfare, and military culture across time and space.