The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains

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Glenda Riley, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of Frontierswomen: The Iowa Experience, Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915, and Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women's History, 1607 to the Present .This book introduces the important concept of a female frontier—a frontier "every bit as real and coherent, as, for example, the mining frontier." It gives us a new understanding of western women's shared experiences and of the full implications of their participation in America's westward movement. Riley has reconstructed women's roles and concerns from census data, legal proceedings, newspaper accounts, local histories, essays, sermons, novels, photographs, works of art, and in large part from their own words, as recorded in diaries, day books, journals, letters, memoirs, reminiscences, and interviews. These women include the barely literate and the educated, the young and the old, single and married, white and black, native-born and immigrant. What emerges is a new understanding of the shared experiences—at home, in paid employment, and in community activities—that constituted the female frontier. Glenda Riley, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of Frontierswomen: The Iowa Experience, Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915, and Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women's History, 1607 to the Present .

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Bookseller's Inventory #

12162102KK

Title

The Female Frontier

Author

Glenda Riley

Format/Binding

Trade Paperback

Book Condition

Used - Very Good

Quantity Available

1

Edition

1st

Binding

Paperback

ISBN 10

0700604243

ISBN 13

9780700604241

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Place of Publication

Lawrence, KS

Date Published

1988

Pages

299

Size

6 x 9 x 0.75"

Keywords

Kansas, Prairie, Women's History, Western Histsory

Bookseller catalogs

History; Kansas; Anthropology;

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