Women and Gender in the American West
- ISBN-10
- 0826335993
- ISBN-13
- 9780826335999
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 437
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- UNM Press
- Authors
- Mary Ann Irwin, James Brooks
Description
The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.
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