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Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest Ser.: True Women and Westward Expansion by Adrienne Caughfield (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTexas A&M University Press
ISBN-10158544409X
ISBN-139781585444090
eBay Product ID (ePID)7038751474
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTrue Women and Westward Expansion
Publication Year2005
SubjectWomen, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, United States / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorAdrienne Caughfield
SeriesElma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2004-019731
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number24
Dewey Decimal976.4/05
SynopsisExpansion was the fever of the early 19th century, and women burned with it as surely as men. Women championed expansion for the cause of civilization, while avoiding the masculine world of politics. Adrienne Caughfield mines diaries and letters of Texas women to uncover their ideas and enthusiasms, Expansion was the fever of the early nineteenth century, and women burned with it as surely as men, although in a different way. Subscribing to the "cult of true womanhood," which valued domesticity, piety, and similar "feminine" virtues, women championed expansion for the cause of civilization, even while largely avoiding the masculine world of politics. Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of some ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier. Although there were a few notable exceptions, most of them drew on their domestic skills and values to establish not only "civilization," but their own security. Caughfield sheds light on women's activism (the flip side of domesticity), attitudes toward race and "civilization," the tie between a vision of a unified continent and a cultivated wilderness, and republican values. She offers a new understanding of not only gender roles in the West but also the impulse for expansionism itself. In Texas, Caughfield demonstrates, "women never stopped arriving with more fuel for the flames [of expansionism] as their families tried to find a place to settle down, some place with a little more room, where national destiny and personal dreams merged into a glorious whole." In doing so, Texas women expanded not only American borders, but their own as well., Expansion was the fever of the early nineteenth century, and women burned with it as surely as men, although in a different way. Subscribing to the "cult of true womanhood," which valued domesticity, piety, and similar "feminine" virtues, women championed expansion for the cause of civilization, even while largely avoiding the masculine world of politics. Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of some ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier. Although there were a few notable exceptions, most of them drew on their domestic skills and values to establish not only "civilization," but their own security. Caughfield sheds light on women's activism (the flip side of domesticity), attitudes toward race and "civilization," the tie between a vision of a unified continent and a cultivated wilderness, and republican values. She offers a new understanding of not only gender roles in the West but also the impulse for expansionism itself. In Texas, Caughfield demonstrates, "women never stopped arriving with more fuel for the flames of expansionism] as their families tried to find a place to settle down, some place with a little more room, where national destiny and personal dreams merged into a glorious whole." In doing so, Texas women expanded not only American borders, but their own as well.
LC Classification NumberF390.C385 2005
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