One Woman's West
Author | : Martha Gay Masterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Pioneers -- Northwest, women pioneers.
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Author | : Martha Gay Masterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Pioneers -- Northwest, women pioneers.
Author | : Joyce Litz |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2004-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 082633122X |
This true story of a Victorian-era young woman who follows her husband to a small town with the improbable name of Gilt Edge, Montana, will remind readers of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, the classic novel of a woman's life in the Mountain West. As a young girl, Lillian Weston, the author's grandmother, aspired to be a concert pianist. However, as a young woman in turn-of-the-century New York, she became a newspaper columnist. Her marriage to Frank Hazen took her west in 1899, ending her career as a newspaperwoman. She turned her writing skills to journals, diaries, stories, and poems, which traced her family's life on a frontier that was no longer unspoiled. The Hazens endured brutal winters and dry summers and endeavored to raise cattle and chickens by trial and error. Lillian was an assiduous diarist who included details of her turbulent marriage challenged by Frank's bad business deals. The details of birth control and child rearing, gambling and prostitution, education and health care are all part of this story, offering glimpses into everyday life that often go unreported in the larger story of western expansion.
Author | : Cathy Luchetti |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393321555 |
More than 140 period photographs and excerpts from letters, diaries, books, and journals provide insight into daily life in the American West for women in the nineteenth century. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Reprint.
Author | : Christiane Bird |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0671027565 |
Combining reminiscence, travelogue, history, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, a journey through modern-day Iran reveals a nation shrouded by misunderstanding, cultural stereotypes, and hostility.
Author | : Susan Armitage |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806120676 |
Uses selections from diaries, public records, letters, interviews, and fiction to describe the experiences of women in the West, including Indians, servants, waitresses, prostitutes, and farmers
Author | : Gail O'Sullivan Dwyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Women military cadets |
ISBN | : 9781555716639 |
Gail O'Sullivan Dwyer graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1981-- only the second Academy class to have women among its members.
Author | : Janette Oke |
Publisher | : Bethany House |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0764202502 |
Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together.
Author | : Hilary Hallett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520953681 |
In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a "New Woman." Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford’s rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood’s first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.
Author | : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1997-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452903255 |
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
Author | : Donna M. McAleer |
Publisher | : Fortis |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780984551118 |
Portraits of fourteen women who graduated from West Point and served in the Army, highlighting their character, accomplishments, leadership, ordeals and sacrifices.