Women on the North American Plains

Informationen zum Autor Renee M. Laegreid, associate professor of history at Hastings College in Nebraska, specializes in women's and gender history in the West.Sandra K. Mathews is professor of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University, specializing in the U.S. West, Comparative Borderlands, and American Indian History. Klappentext Twelve essays - arranged chronologically within sub-regions - draw upon innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, including gender/transgender studies, decolonization of Native peoples, and the influence of nation states. Richly grounded in the particular, these essays also contextualize the stories of specific women and locales within larger social, political, and economic trends. Individually and collectively, they reveal the intricate relations that tie together people and place. Zusammenfassung "The first comprehensive work highlighting the diversity of women's experiences on the North American Plains; twelve essays present women's perspectives from prehistory to the present! across the northern! central! and southern plains"--Provided by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Joan M. Jensen, Renee M. (EDT)/ Mathews Laegreid
• Assisted by: Renee M Laegreid (Editor), Renee M. Laegreid (Editor), Sandra K Mathews (Editor), Sandra K. Mathews (Editor), Sandra K. Mathews-Benham (Editor)
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2011
• EAN: 9780896727335
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-733-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Plains Histories; Plains Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous