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Women's Place on the American Frontier

Walsh, Margaret·1995·Journal of American Studies
DOI 10.1017/s0021875800020855
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Women's traditional place on the American frontier has been as invisible helpmate or at best as some shadowy figure who appeared occasionally when describing pioneer homes and lifestyles. Until recently, historians followed the individualistic and linear progression of Frederick Jackson Turner westward across the continent and found no need to discuss the activities of both sexes. Euro-American men were fully capable of explaining the frontier, both as authors and as subjects. But the American frontier is no longer one-dimensional. Increasing numbers of female historians have insisted on not only placing women in the midst of established pioneering ventures, but have widened western horizons to discuss different pioneers and new economic and social roles for women of all ethnic and racial groups. Women's place on the frontier has now become so central that it is impossible to make any sense of new settlement patterns without examining the experiences of both men and women and their relationships to each other.

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Authors
Walsh, M.
Venue
Journal of American Studies
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1995-08
Volume
29
Issue
2
Pages
241-255
ISSN
  • 0021-8758
  • 1469-5154
DOI
10.1017/s0021875800020855
Cited by
10
References
0
Language
en
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4917 d)

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