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Women and Gender in the American West collects essays for the first time on topics that range from Mormon plural marriages to women's experiences 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 women in western Canada to Chicana activists in Texas. Beyond their topical interest, the essays also present the evolving analytical force of a field that has deepened and matured over time.

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  1. Front Cover
  2. pp. i-ii
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  1. Title Page
  2. p. iii
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  1. Copyright
  2. p. iv
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  1. Foreword
  2. p. v
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vi-vii
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  1. About the Authors
  2. pp. viii-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. The Gentle Tamers Revisited: New Approaches to the History of Women in the American West
  2. pp. 9-36
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  1. ‘At Their Peril’: Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850
  2. pp. 37-52
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  1. Race, Gender, and Intercultural Relations: the Case of Interracial Marriage
  2. pp. 53-65
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  1. Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics, and Decolonization of History
  2. pp. 66-88
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  1. ‘A Memory Sweet to Soldiers’: The Significance of Gender in the History of the ‘American West’
  2. pp. 89-109
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  1. Gender, Race, Raza
  2. pp. 110-133
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  1. Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers’ Activism, 1919–1974
  2. pp. 134-159
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  1. ‘This Evil Extends Especially . . . to the Feminine Sex’: Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands
  2. pp. 160-182
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  1. ‘No Place for a Woman’: Engendering Western Canadian Settlement
  2. pp. 183-209
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  1. Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850–1900
  2. pp. 210-235
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  1. ‘Going About and Doing Good’: The Politics of Benevolence, Welfare, and Gender in San Francisco, 1850–1880
  2. pp. 236-258
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  1. ‘Strong Animal Passions’ in the Gilded Age: Race, Sex, and a Senator on Trial
  2. pp. 259-280
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  1. Elle Meets the President: Weaving Navajo Culture and Commerce in the Southwestern Tourist Industry
  2. pp. 281-300
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  1. The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875–1935
  2. pp. 301-325
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 326-437
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  1. Back Cover
  2. p. 449
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