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True Women and Westward Expansion
Adrienne Caughfield
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Expansion 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 Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585444090
SKU
V9781585444090
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About Adrienne Caughfield
Adrienne Caughfield, who holds a Ph.D. from Texas Christian University, is director of Academic Programs at the Heritage Farmstead Museum in Plano, Texas.
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