Intercultural and Interracial Relations

ISBN-13: 9783598414688 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 455 str.

Nancy F. Cott

Opis

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Spis treści

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Intercultural and Interracial Relations -- The Role of Native Women in the Creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1830 -- Honor Ideology, Marriage Negotiation, and Class-Gender Domination in New Mexico, 1690-1846 -- Cross-Cultural Marriages in the Southwest: The New Mexico Experience, 1846-1900 -- Race, Sex, and Region: Black Women in the American West, 1850-1920 -- Frontierswomen's Changing Views of Indians in the Trans- Missippippi West -- A Complex Bond: Southern Black Domestic Workers and Their White Employers -- The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture -- Mexican Women in San Antonio, 1830-1860: The Assimilation Process -- Black Women and Their Communities in Colorado -- Black and White Women in Interaction and Confrontation -- Sharing Bed and Board: Cohabitation and Cultural Difference in Central Arizona Mining Towns, 1863-1873 -- "Hardly a Farm House -- A Kitchen without Them": Indian and White Households on the California Borderland Frontier in 1860 -- Women's Work among the Plains Indians -- American Indian Women and the Catholic Church -- Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression -- Doing "Women's Work": The Grey Nuns at Fort Totten Indian Reservation, 1874-1900 -- Crossing Ethnic Barriers in the Southwest: Women's Agricultural Extension Education, 1914-1940 -- Newcomers to Navajoland: Transculturation in the Memoirs of Anglo Women, 1900-1945 -- Women and Intercultural Relations: The Case of Hispanic New Mexico and Colorado -- Quiet Suffering: Atlanta Women in the 1930s -- Race, Sex, and Class: Black Female Tobacco Workers in Durham, North Carolina, 1920-1940, and the Development of Female Consciousness -- The Role of Women in a Changing Navaho Society -- Copyright Information -- Index