The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780700604241)

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.

Author: Glenda Riley
ISBN-10: 0700604243
ISBN-13: 9780700604241
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Language: English
Published: 04/28/1988
Pages: 299
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.08w x 0.69d