Description
Riley has reconstructed women's roles and concerns from census data, legal proceedings, newspaper accounts, local histories, essays, sermons, novels, photographs, works of art, and in large part from their own words, as recorded in diaries, day books, journals, letters, memoirs, reminiscences, and interviews. These women include the barely literate and the educated, the young and the old, single and married, white and black, native-born and immigrant. What emerges is a new understanding of the shared experiences-at home, in paid employment, and in community activities-that constituted the female frontier.
Book Information
ISBN 9780700604241
Author Glenda Riley
Format Hardback
Page Count 298
Imprint University Press of Kansas
Publisher University Press of Kansas