Doctor in Petticoats

Doctor in Petticoats
Author: Mary Connealy
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 160742195X

What happens when an idealistic student nurse encounters an embittered army doctor in a stagecoach accident? How will she react when she learns her training didn’t prepare her for tragic reality? How will he, an army deserter, respond to needs when he vowed to never touch another patient? Can these two stubborn mules find common ground on which to work and bring healing to West Texas?

National Parks and the Woman's Voice

National Parks and the Woman's Voice
Author: Polly Welts Kaufman
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780826339942

In this updated study, Polly Kaufman discovers that staff are no longer able to fulfill the National Park Service mission without outside support.

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women, 2nd

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women, 2nd
Author: Beverly West
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0762783990

New Mexico has not always been the "Land of Enchantment." It was shaped into the great state that it is today by remarkable people throughout history. More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women describes the lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who helped to create the state of New Mexico and change the face of American history.

The Frontiers of Women's Writing

The Frontiers of Women's Writing
Author: Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0816549346

Although the myth of the American frontier is largely the product of writings by men, a substantial body of writings by women exists that casts the era of western expansion in a different light. In this study of American women's writings about the West between 1830 and 1930, a European scholar provides a reconstruction and new vision of frontier narrative from a perspective that has frequently been overlooked or taken for granted in discussions of the frontier. Brigitte Georgi-Findlay presents a range of writings that reflects the diversity of the western experience. Beginning with the narratives of Caroline Kirkland and other women of the early frontier, she reviews the diaries of the overland trails; letters and journals of the wives of army officers during the Indian wars; professional writings, focusing largely on travel, by women such as Caroline Leighton from the regional publishing cultures that emerged in the Far West during the last quarter of the century; and late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century accounts of missionaries and teachers on Indian reservations. Most of the writers were white, literate women who asserted their own kind of cultural authority over the lands and people they encountered. Their accounts are not only set in relation to a masculine frontier myth but also investigated for clues about their own involvement with territorial expansion. By exploring the various ways in which women writers actively contributed to and at times rejected the development of a national narrative of territorial expansion based on empire building and colonization, the author shows how their accounts are implicated in expansionist processes at the same time that they formulate positions of innocence and detachment. Georgi-Findlay has drawn on American studies scholarship, feminist criticism, and studies of colonial discourse to examine the strategies of women's representation in writing about the West in ways that most theorists have not. She critiques generally accepted stereotypes and assumptions--both about women's writing and its difference of view in particular, and about frontier discourse and the rhetoric of westward expansion in general--as she offers a significant contribution to literary studies of the West that will challenge scholars across a wide range of disciplines.

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women
Author: Cherry Lyon Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1493082817

How did Alaska become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women recognizes the women who shaped the Last Frontier. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.