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Languages : en
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Encyclopedia of Women in the American West
Author: An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
Author: Phil KovinickPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This encyclopedia is a biographical dictionary of some 1,000 women artists of the American West. The product of a twenty-year, coast-to-coast research project by authors Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, it offers accurate, concise introductions to women painters, graphic artists, and sculptors, all of whom achieved recognition as depictors of Western subjects between the 1840s and 1980. Their styles range from representationalism to early modernism, while their works depict everything from bold landscapes and scenes of intensive action to studies of Native Americans, pioneers, ranchers, farmers, wildlife, and flora. Each entry in the encyclopedia features the salient facts of the artist's life and career, with attention to her work with Western subject matter. Many of the entries also contain a selected list of the artist's exhibitions, current locations of her work in public collections, pertinent references, and a black-and-white example of her work. An overview of the history of women in western art complements the biographical entries.
Encyclopedia of Women in the American West
Author: Gordon Moris BakkenPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761923565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
American women have followed their "manifest destiny" since the 1800's, moving West to homestead, found businesses, author novels and write poetry, practice medicine and law, preach and perform missionary work, become educators, artists, judges, civil rights activists, and many other important roles spurred on by their strength, spirit, and determination.
Women and Gender in the American West
Author: Mary Ann IrwinPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826335999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.
Women in the American West
Author: Laura E. Woodworth-NeyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598840517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West. Twenty years after many Western historians first turned their attention toward women, Women in the American West synthesizes the development of women's history in the region, introduces readers to current thinking on the real experiences of Western women, and explores their influence on the course of expansion and development since the 19th century. Women in the American West offers vivid portrayals of women as pioneers, prostitutes, teachers, disguised soldiers, nurses, entrepreneurs, immigrants, and ordinary citizens caught up in extraordinary times. Organized chronologically, each chapter emphasizes important themes central to gender and women's history, including women's mobility, women at home, wage labor, immigration, marriage, political participation, and involvement in wars at home and abroad. With this revealing volume, readers will see that women had a far more profound effect on the course of history in the Western United States than is commonly thought.
Portraits of Women in the American West
Author: Dee Garceau-HagenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136076107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told. This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence, the subordinate status of women of color, their perseverance and influence in changing that status, a look at the gendered religious legacy that shaped Western Catholicism, and women in the urban and rural, industrial and agricultural West.
Encyclopedia of Women's History in America
Author: Kathryn Cullen-DuPontPublisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816041008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
Encyclopedia of the American West
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West
Author: Gordon Morris BakkenPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412905508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
Through sweeping entries, focused biographies, community histories, economic enterprise analysis, and demographic studies, this Encyclopedia presents the tapestry of the West and its population during various periods of migration. Examines the settling of the West and includes coverage of movements of American Indians, African Americans, and the often-forgotten role of women in the West's development.
Plains Women
Author: Paula BartleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521386166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Briefly examines the experiences of women pioneers in the Great Plains, as this country expanded westward in the nineteenth century.
