Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919

Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / Jane E. Simonsen.

Author/creator	Simonsen, Jane E.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Description	xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	Arts and society--West (U.S.) --History --19th century. Arts and society--West (U.S.) --History --20th century. Home economics--Cross-cultural studies. Social values--West (U.S.) Women--West (U.S.) --Social conditions. Indian women--West (U.S.) --Cultural assimilation.

Series	Gender and American culture Gender & American culture. ^A228874
Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index.
LCCN	2005034946
ISBN	0807830321 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807856959 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780807830321
ISBN	9780807856956

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