Women and Gender in the American West

About the Authors

 Joan M. Jensen is retired from teaching now and is completing a book, CallingThis Place Home:Women on theWisconsin Frontier, –. Her previous titles include Loosening the Bonds () and One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern AmericanWest (). When not writing, she is usually making things out of fiber, bird watching, or flying kites. Darlis A. Miller is Professor Emerita of History at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Mary Hallock Foote:Author-Illustrator of the AmericanWest (), and is currently working on a biography of Matilda Coxe Stevenson, the first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest. Carol Cornwall Madsen is an Associate Professor of History and Senior Research Historian in the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History at BrighamYoung University.Among other works, she is the author of A Bluestocking in Zion:The Literary Life of Emmeline B.Wells () and Journey to Zion:Voices from the MormonTrail (), and the editor of Battle for the Ballot: Essays onWoman Suffrage in Utah, – (). Peggy Pascoe holds the Beekman Chair of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon, where she teaches courses on the history of race, gender, and sexuality and on the history of the U.S.West.A former copresident of the Coordinating Council for Women in History, she is the author of Relations of Rescue:The Search for Female Moral Authority in the AmericanWest, – (), and is currently completing a book on the history of miscegenation law in the United States. Antonia I. Castañeda is Associate Professor and O’Conner Chair in Borderlands History at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio,Texas. In , she secured National Endowment for the Humanities funding for study of “Gender and the Borderlands” at St. Mary’s. Her numerous publications About the Authors  About the Authors include “Gender, Race, and Culture: Spanish Mexican Women in the Historiography of Frontier California,”“Engendering the History of Alta California, –: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family,” and “Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture.” Susan Lee Johnson is an Associate Professor of History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Johnson is the author of Roaring Camp:The SocialWorld of the California Gold Rush (), the grandparent of five young westerners, and a summer resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Amy Kaminsky is Professor of Women’s Studies and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent book is After Exile:Writing the Latin American Diaspora ().With the help of an American Council of Learned Societies grant, she is currently working on a book-length project whose working title is “Argentina: International Imagination and National Identity.” Irene Ledesma was an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas-Pan American. She won the Jensen-Miller Prize in ; her death two years later deprived us of an important voice in Chicana history. In her honor, the Coalition for Western Women’s History awards an annual Irene Ledesma Prize, which provides funding for graduate student research in western women’s history. James F. Brooks is a member of the research faculty and Director of SAR Press at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His recent book, Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands () garnered seven major prizes in , including the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, the W.Turrentine Jackson Award, the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, and it shared the Frederick Douglass Prize fromYale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for Studies in Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Catherine A. Cavanaugh teaches history and women’s studies at Athabasca University. Her recent work includes an exploration of the “Persons” case and the ways in which women remember this landmark decision in Canadian constitutional law. She is currently working on a biography of Irene Parlby, Member of the United Farmers Government of Alberta and the second woman minister in the British empire.  About the Authors Jean Barman teaches in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia and writes about Pacific Northwest history. Her most recent book, Sojourning Sisters:The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen (), won the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal awarded by the British Columbia Historical Federation and the Clio Prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association, both for best book on British Columbia history. She is a Fellow...