Western Women's Lives

<p>The seventeen essays reprinted in this anthology address the ways in which western women have experienced the twentieth century. These writings go beyond the standard categorizations of gender class race and ethnicity by providing a deeper understanding of women and distribution of power through examinations of generations family and career religion sexual orientation geography and political preferences. The analysis that emerges is of an increasingly complex mix of experiences some continuous from the nineteenth century and others unique to modernity but all powerfully shaping how women lived in the West during the past century.</p><p>This collection is arranged around five themes: politics and power; women and mobility; staying on the land; uncovering women's voices; and reshaping cultural images and ideas. The individual contributors are a virtual "Who's Who" in the field of women's ethnic and gender studies: Karen Anderson (University of Arizona Tucson) Antonia Castaneda (St. Mary's University San Antonio Texas) Virginia Scharff (University of New Mexico Albuquerque) Paul R. Spickard (University of California Santa Barbara) Xiaojian Zhao (University of California Santa Barbara) Norma Chinchilla (University of California Long Beach) Nora Hamilton (University of Southern California Los Angeles) Sherry L. Smith (Southern Methodist University Dallas) Carol Wolfe Konek (Wichita State University Wichita Kansas) Emily Honig (University of California Santa Cruz) Dolores Delgado Bernal Debra A. Castillo (Cornell University Ithaca New York) Maria Gudelia Rangel Gomez Bonnie Delgado (Cornell University Ithaca) Mary Murphy Laura Jane Moore Valerie Matsumoto Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Ohio State University Columbus) and the volume editor Sandra Schackel (Boise State University Boise Idaho).</p>