Contingent Maps is an appeal to all who read, write, and care about the history of women in the North American West. Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett, former co-editors of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, argue that the discipline of Western women s history, despite its many years of accomplishment, remains the stepsister to both U.S. women s history and the New Western history. The problem, they assert, is one of place. Western women s history remains unhappily chained to one place, Frederick Jackson Turner s mythical frontier, where white civilization vanquished...
Contingent Maps is an appeal to all who read, write, and care about the history of women in the North American West. Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gu...
