Making home work [electronic resource] : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / Jane E. Simonsen.
Series: Gender & American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.Description: xii, 266 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 305.48/89707809034 22
- NX180.S6 S572 2006eb
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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