Add to ORKGThe purpose of this study is to reinterpret the influence of domestic ideology on middle-class Anglo women during westward migration using the Oregon Trail as a case study. By analyzing traditional cultural constructs which portrayed women as "reluctant drudges" or " stoic helpmates," a new paradigm for trail women emerged. The inculcated tenets of domesticity, comprised of a domestic routine and a values system, seemed to have equipped women with domestically-related role identities, and thus facilitated the accommodation of these women to the challenges of trail life. In addition, this ideology served as the basis for establishing relationships with Native American women, for Anglo women recognized similaritiesbetween the domestic routine...
INTRODUCTION Despite growing awareness of early Great Plains observers’ preconceptions regarding nat...
This paper examines the ways Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged – in subtle and...
The distinctive traits of early settlers at initial stages of institutional development may be cruci...
This project is informed by the history of Native American removal across Western lands, and the soc...
Prior to the last few decades of the twentieth century, the story of Westward expansion in the Unite...
During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, when trans-Atlantic steamships crossings be...
This thesis will examine nineteenth-century women and their primary role in the cultural formation o...
In this paper female overland documentations are examined, as narratives that could influence develo...
At the end of the nineteenth century, America experienced what history textbooks label the last of ...
This study explores the relationship between federal land policy and women\u27s property rights in t...
Graduation date: 1997In the early 1990s, a cutback in harvestable timber led to economic stress amon...
This study considers the question of whether immigrant women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri...
51 pagesHundreds of thousands of individuals and their families made the journey westward on the Ove...
Historians have long examined how different groups of women lived in ways contrary to post-World War...
Women challenged traditional roles and expectations in both the mountains and politics of the 20th-c...
INTRODUCTION Despite growing awareness of early Great Plains observers’ preconceptions regarding nat...
This paper examines the ways Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged – in subtle and...
The distinctive traits of early settlers at initial stages of institutional development may be cruci...
This project is informed by the history of Native American removal across Western lands, and the soc...
Prior to the last few decades of the twentieth century, the story of Westward expansion in the Unite...
During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, when trans-Atlantic steamships crossings be...
This thesis will examine nineteenth-century women and their primary role in the cultural formation o...
In this paper female overland documentations are examined, as narratives that could influence develo...
At the end of the nineteenth century, America experienced what history textbooks label the last of ...
This study explores the relationship between federal land policy and women\u27s property rights in t...
Graduation date: 1997In the early 1990s, a cutback in harvestable timber led to economic stress amon...
This study considers the question of whether immigrant women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri...
51 pagesHundreds of thousands of individuals and their families made the journey westward on the Ove...
Historians have long examined how different groups of women lived in ways contrary to post-World War...
Women challenged traditional roles and expectations in both the mountains and politics of the 20th-c...
INTRODUCTION Despite growing awareness of early Great Plains observers’ preconceptions regarding nat...
This paper examines the ways Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged – in subtle and...
The distinctive traits of early settlers at initial stages of institutional development may be cruci...