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Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / Jane E. Simonsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simonsen, Jane E.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Arts and society.
- Arts and society--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Home economics--Cross-cultural studies.
- Home economics.
- Social values--West (U.S.).
- Social values.
- Women--West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Indian women--Cultural assimilation--West (U.S.).
- Indian women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as ""home"" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate work to create and uphold. Treating white and indigenous women's struggles as part of the same history, Jane E. Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and domestic laborers insisted upon the value of their work to ""civilization,"" they exposed the inequalities integral to both the nation and the
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890878533
- 9780807877265
- 0807877263
- OCLC:
- 82479976
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