ISBN: 9780807877265

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of A… Meer...

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate work to create and uphold. Treating white and indigenous women's struggles as part of the same history, Jane E. Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and domestic laborers insisted upon the value of their work to "civilization," they exposed the inequalities integral to both the nation and the household. Simonsen illuminates discussions about the value of women's work through analysis of texts and images created by writers, women's rights activists, reformers, anthropologists, photographers, field matrons, and Native American women. She argues that women such as Caroline Soule, Alice Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, Anna Dawson Wilde, and Angel DeCora called upon the rhetoric of sentimental domesticity, ethnographic science, public display, and indigenous knowledge as they sought to make the gendered and racial order of the nation visible through homes and the work performed in them. Focusing on the range of materials through which domesticity was produced in the West, Simonsen integrates new voices into the study of domesticity's imperial manifestations. Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 The University of North Carolina Press Gender Studies domesticity; Indian assimilation; Dawes Act; Indian reform; Indian allotment; civilization policy; women's work; cultural work; domestic labor; domestic imperialism; sentimental imperialism; material feminism; exhibitionary complex; Caroline Soule; Alice Fletcher; E. Jane Gay; Angel DeCora; Anna Dawson Wilde; Women's National Indian Association (WNIA); Nez Perces; model homes; ethnologists; field matrons; Hampton Institute; Carlisle School; Iowa history; married women's property; women professionals; Indian arts and crafts; Native American; sentimental literature 9780807830321, 9780807856956 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Social Sciences, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807877265

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of A… Meer...

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as home was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate work to create and uphold. Treating white and indigenous women's struggles as part of the same history, Jane E. Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and domestic laborers insisted upon the value of their work to civilization, they exposed the inequalities integral to both the nation and the household.Simonsen illuminates discussions about the value of women's work through analysis of texts and images created by writers, women's rights activists, reformers, anthropologists, photographers, field matrons, and Native American women. She argues that women such as Caroline Soule, Alice Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, Anna Dawson Wilde, and Angel DeCora called upon the rhetoric of sentimental domesticity, ethnographic science, public display, and indigenous knowledge as they sought to make the gendered and racial order of the nation visible through homes and the work performed in them. Focusing on the range of materials through which domesticity was produced in the West, Simonsen integrates new voices into the study of domesticity's imperial manifestations. Digital Content>E-books>Social Sciences>Native Amer Studies>Native Amer Studies, The University of North Carolina Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780807877265

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of A… Meer...

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for wome During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for wome, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807877265

Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 Making-Home-Work~~Jane-E-Simonsen Social Sciences>Native Amer Studies>Native Amer Studies NO… Meer...

Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 Making-Home-Work~~Jane-E-Simonsen Social Sciences>Native Amer Studies>Native Amer Studies NOOK Book (eBook), The University of North Carolina Press<

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Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: The University of North Carolina Press], The University of North Carolina… Meer...

Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: The University of North Carolina Press], The University of North Carolina Press, 2006<