Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier
ISBN-10
0816525439
ISBN-13
9780816525430
Category
History
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Author
Cynthia Culver Prescott

Description

"Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers' children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation's emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption."--BOOK JACKET.

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