Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier (Women's Western Voices)
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816534136 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is concise, well-written, and cogently argued.”—Southern California Quarterly “This useful study fills a glaring gap in our knowledge of western women.”—New Mexico Historical Review “Prescott’s work begins to fill gaps in both western and gender history and should provide a starting point for further research and scholarship on the impact of generational shifts to gender roles in the West.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly. “Cynthia Culver Prescott’s Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier is an exceptionally good work
Gender and Generation: Important Contributions Paul P. Robinette Jr. This book makes important and original contributions to the understanding of Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier. It teaches valuable lessons for today's Americans. I am reading this as a gradutate student of history at the University of North Dakota. It is informative and rich in detail as any textbook with footnotes, but surprisingly easy to read and understand. (Unlike too many post-graduate dissertations.)(Full Disclosure: I am a student of Dr. Prescott's.)I heartily recommend this easy-to-read-and-follow work in the areas of western. "Early settlement days in Oregon" according to David Culver. Dr. Prescott offers an insightful look at first and second generation settlers in Oregon's Willamette Valley during the mid-to-late 19th century. Dr. Prescott contends that favorable farming conditions in addition to generous land grants made it possible for women as well as men to progress very quickly from frontier farming roles to a more consumer-oriented middle class way of life. Using the diaries of Maria Locey, the quilts of Zeralda Carpenter Bones Stone, and many other sources, Dr. Prescott presents a very readable glimpse of pioneer life in Or
Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption.This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary El