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Making home work [electronic resource] : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / Jane E. Simonsen.

By: Simonsen, Jane E.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Gender & American culture: Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006Description: xii, 266 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century | Arts and society -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century | Home economics -- Cross-cultural studies | Social values -- West (U.S.) | Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions | Indian women -- Cultural assimilation -- West (U.S.)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.48/89707809034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: Squaring the circle -- Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement -- The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home -- Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation -- The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki -- A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field -- Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival -- Postscript: The map and the territory.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index.

Introduction: Squaring the circle -- Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement -- The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home -- Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation -- The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki -- A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field -- Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival -- Postscript: The map and the territory.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.