Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919Univ of North Carolina Press, 8. 12. 2006 - Počet stran: 288 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. |
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Class and Race in the Married Womans Home | 43 |
Domesticity on Display in Native American Assimilation | 71 |
Unsettling Domesticity in E Jane Gays Choupnitki | 111 |
Anna Dawson Wildes Home in the Field | 151 |
Domestic Production and Cultural Survival | 183 |
The Map and the Territory | 215 |
Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 243 |
Index | 261 |
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Strana 166 - ... arranged, its cellar and storehouse. is a model of its kind and one that is being adopted by the younger Indians all about. Already five houses after the exact pattern of this (mistakes and all) have been completed, and three more are going up now. " One day, while at table, the dining room was suddenly darkened by a big six-foot Indian, who, quite unconscious of the gloom he was casting over our dinner table, stood just outside the one window taking very exact measurements of its frame and sash....
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