The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains - Softcover

Riley, Glenda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700604243 ISBN 13: 9780700604241

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas, 1988

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book gives a comparative view of women on the prairie and the plains.

About the Author:

Glenda Riley, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of Frontierswomen: The Iowa Experience, Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915, and Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women's History, 1607 to the Present.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0700604243
• ISBN 13: 9780700604241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304