Bibliographies and Resources

Edited Collections of Essays on Western Women's History (some places to start):

 

Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson, eds., The Women's West (1987)

Vicki Ruiz, Lillian Schlissel, eds., Western Women, Their Lands, Their Lives (1988)

Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson, eds., Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West (1997)

Sandra Schackel, ed., Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003).

 

Key Historiographical/Epistimological Works in Western Women's History:

 

Elizabeth Jameson, "Bringing It All Back Home: Women in the 19th Century American West," in William F. Deverell, A Companion to the American West (Blackwell Companions to American History), (Boston: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming March 2004.

Joan Jensen and Darlis Miller, "'Gentle Tamers' Revisited," in Pacific Historical Review (1980).

Sandra Myres, "Women in the West," in Michael Malone, Historians and the American West (1983).

Susan Armitage, "Through Women's Eyes: A New View of the West," in Armitage and Jameson, The Women's West (1987).

Elizabeth Jameson, "Toward a Multi-Cultural History of Women in the Western United States," in Signs (1988).

Peggy Pascoe, "Western Women at the Cultural Crossroads," in Patricia Nelson Limerick, Clyde Milner II, and Charles Rankin, Trails: Toward a New Western History (1991).

Antónia I. Castañeda, "Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics, and Decolonization of History," in Pacific Historical Review (1992).

 

Published Bibliographies and Finding Guides to Western Women's History Books and Manuscript Collections:

 

 

Catherine J. Lavender, "Gender in the West: A Bibliography" (1996).

Sheryll & Gene Patterson-Black, eds., Western Women in History & Literature (1978).

Judy Yung, Elsie Wong, and Vivian Kobayashi, "Asian American Women: A Bibliography," Bridge 6 (Winter 1978): 49-53.

Judy Chu, "Asian American Women Bibliography," in Cross Currents: Newsmagazine of the Asian American Studies Center (University of California, Los Angeles) 7 (Winter 1984): 18-22.

Teri Conrad, Women in the West: A Bibliography, 1984-1987 (1988, Coalition for Western Women's History)

Pat Devejian and Jacqueline J. Etulain, compilers, Women and Family in the Twentieth-Century American West: A Bibliography (1990, Center for the American West, UNM)

Susan Armitage, et al, eds., Women in the West : A Guide to Manuscript Sources (1991)

last updated: November 14, 2003