Women and Gender in the American West

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Women AmericAn West in the and Gender mary Ann irwin James F. Brooks edited by ËxHSKIMGy335999zv*:+:!:+:! ISBN 0-8263-3599-3 Women And Gender in the AmericAn West irwin and Brooks I N 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 was done with grace and style and 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 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. Professors Jensen’s and Miller’s classic฀1980 essay “The Gentle Tamers Revisited“ is reprinted here along with a new Preface in which Jensen and Miller reflect on the course of scholarship as represented in these essays. Women and Gender in the American West is a rare compilation of cutting edge history. Royalties from sales of Women and Gender in the American West go to the Jensen-Miller Prize Fund of the Coalition for Western Women’s History. Mary Ann Irwin is an independent scholar and chair of the Coalition for 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, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Western History | Women University of new mexico Press unmpress.com 1-800-249-7737 Cover illustration: © KamilVojnar / Photonica Cover design: Robyn Mundy ...