Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
by
Jane E. Simonsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
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...