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Author:

Morin, Karen M.

Title:

Frontiers of femininity : a new historical geography of the nineteenth-century American West / Karen M. Morin.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Feminists--United States--History--19th century.
Suffrage--United States--History--19th century.
Women's studies--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The frontiers of femininity -- Trains through the plains : the great plains landscape of Victorian women travelers -- Peak practices : Englishwomen's heroic adventures in the nineteenth-century American West -- Gender, nature, empire : women naturalists in nineteenth-century British women's travel literature (with Jeanne Kay Guelke) -- Surveying Britain's informal empire : Rose Kingsley's 1872 reconnaissance for the Mexican National Railway -- British women travelers and constructions of racial difference across the nineteenth-century American West -- Postcolonialism and Native American geographies : the letters of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899 -- Mining empire : journalists in the American West, circa 1870 -- Afterword: Imprints on a new historical geography of North America.

Series:

Space, place, and society

ISBN:

0815631677 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815631675 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008034675

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)