The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes - a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. "Home Lands: How Women Made the West" upends this view to remember the West as a place of homes and habitations brought into being by the women who lived there. Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken consider history's long span as they explore the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal ...
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The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes - a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. "Home Lands: How Women Made the West" upends this view to remember the West as a place of homes and habitations brought into being by the women who lived there. Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken consider history's long span as they explore the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal Western landscapes: the Rio Arriba of northern New Mexico, the Front Range of Colorado, and the Puget Sound waterscape. This beautiful book, companion volume to the Autry National Center's pathbreaking exhibit, is a brilliant aggregate of women's history, the history of the American West, and studies in material culture. While linking each of these places' peoples to one another over hundreds, even thousands, of years, "Home Lands" vividly reimagines the West as a setting in which home has been created out of differing notions of dwelling and family and differing concepts of property, community, and history. It is co-published by Autry National Center of the American West.
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Very Good jacket. Berkeley. 2010. July 2010. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520262188. 184 pages. hardcover. keywords: American West Art Woman's Studies. DESCRIPTION-A sweeping, nicely written, briskly paced, accessible history of women in the West. Offering interesting human stories and describing life around the beautiful historical objects illustrated in the book--clothes, chests, pots, houses, art etc. --Home Lands draws readers into an intimate relationship with this unique history. This is the story of women creating and claiming home spaces in the West before the West was even 'the West', and even a story over who has the right to call certain places home: 'Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam. 'Concentrating on three different archetypal Western landscapes--the Upper Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico; the Rocky Mountains and Eastern Plains around Denver; and the bay and sea around Seattle--a leading Western historian and Autry museum curator cover an extraordinary range of ethnicities, racial and class groups, and ages of women through Western history. Planned for publication alongside the opening of a new permanent exhibition at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, the book is intended as both a stand-alone introductory volume to the subject and a guide to the Autry museum exhibition. inventory #37596.
