Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives

by Vicki L. Ruiz

Book Overview

In recent years the study of western history has been transformed by scholarship on the actual experiences of the women who settled the West. The essays gathered here, first presented at a 1984 conference sponsored by the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, analyze and interpret this new body of research.

Each essay is accompanied by several commentaries that reveal the complex multicultural character of the West through the experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826310907
• ISBN13: 9780826310903
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"