Contingent maps : rethinking western women's history and the North American West / edited by Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Susan E., 1952-

Gullett, Gayle Ann

Series:

Women's western voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--West (U.S.)--History.

Women.

West (U.S.)--History.

West (U.S.).

West United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

illustration

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2014.

Summary:

""Contingent Maps is an appeal to all who care about the history of women in the North American West. Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett, former co-editors of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, offer in this collection a new approach to women's history that is firmly rooted in a fresh understanding of place"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The woman's lodge : constructing gender on the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest Plateau

Mindful masquerades : que(e)rying Japanese immigrant dress in turn-of-the-century San Francisco

Latinos in mass-produced culture's capital : new women and other players in Hollywood, 1920-1941

Saying "nothin'" : Pachucas and the languages of resistance

The erotics of racialization : gender and sexuality in the making of California

Elle meets the president : weaving Navajo culture and commerce in the southwestern tourist industry

Working on the domestic frontier : American Indian domestic servants in white women's households in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1920-1940

Docile children and dangerous revolutionaries : the racial hierarchy of manliness and the Bisbee deportation of 1917

ILGWU labor organizers : Chicana and Latina leadership in the Los Angeles garment industry

Esperanza v. City of San Antonio : politics, power, and culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816528899

0816528896

OCLC:

876670880

Publisher Number:

99960201358