Women and Gender in the American West

James F. Brooks, James Brooks, Mary Irwin, Mary Ann Irwin

"In 1990 the Coalition for Western Women's History inaugurated the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize to recognize outstanding scholarship on gender and the experiences of women in the North American West. Since then, the Jensen-Miller Prize committees have considered nearly two hundred submissions, and chosen thirteen for the skill and imagination with which the authors conducted research in original materials or reinterpreted a major problem in the field. Each piece shaped the field for future historians." "Women and Gender in the American West collects these essays for the first time on topics that range from Mormon plural wives to women's experience in Spanish Borderland slavery, from interracial marriage to the sexual exploitation of Indian women in British Columbia, from Navajo women weavers in the market economy to women's reform work in gold rush era San Francisco, from settler...

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