Women of the West: A Celebration of Women's History Month
Name:
Women of the West: A Celebration of Women's History Month
Date:
March 21, 2018
Time:
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
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Event Description:
The second Cabin Conversation!
While popular culture has often relegated women to the margins of western
history, depicting them as the long-suffering wives and helpmeets of male
settlers and frontiersmen, history tells us that the region provided women with a
unique set of challenges and opportunities. Women, in fact, took an active hand
both in shaping their own experience and in leaving their mark on the
communities in which they lived and worked. Yet, all women did not share a
common reality. Instead, their lives were shaped in powerful ways by their
various racial, ethnic, cultural, and class identities.
This talk will explore the diverse experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American West. More than just "gentle tamers," women in the American West played a wide array roles, frequently defying both convention and stereotype.
With Dr. Jenny Thigpen, Associate Professor of History at WSU.
While popular culture has often relegated women to the margins of western
history, depicting them as the long-suffering wives and helpmeets of male
settlers and frontiersmen, history tells us that the region provided women with a
unique set of challenges and opportunities. Women, in fact, took an active hand
both in shaping their own experience and in leaving their mark on the
communities in which they lived and worked. Yet, all women did not share a
common reality. Instead, their lives were shaped in powerful ways by their
various racial, ethnic, cultural, and class identities.
This talk will explore the diverse experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American West. More than just "gentle tamers," women in the American West played a wide array roles, frequently defying both convention and stereotype.
With Dr. Jenny Thigpen, Associate Professor of History at WSU.
