The Women and the American West series broadens our understanding of women and gender to include the American West from the eighteenth century to the present. The series offers writers a venue in which to analyze relationships and exchange between and among women of diverse ethnic, class, and geographic categories in the American West, as well as to explore transnational and global themes. The series seeks manuscripts and proposals (biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, monographs, and academic trade books) that capture the impact western women have had within and outside the West’s boundaries.
Renee M. Laegreid, Series Editor
Renee M. Laegreid, is Professor of History at the University of Wyoming, where she specializes on women and gender in the late 19th to 20th late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century US West. Her publications include Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West (American Spur Award finalist) and Women on the North American Plains (Nebraska Book Award for Anthologies), as well as numerous essays and book chapters on western women and women’s involvement in rodeo. She has been featured in documentary films on women rodeo performers and more recently for her work on women’s suffrage.
In Fritzie, historian Amy Absher reveals how broader cultural forces, including gendered violence, sexual liberation, and evolving urban conditions in the American West, shaped the course of Mann’s life and contributed to her tragic death.
With reference to Quinton’s voluminous writings—including her letters, speeches, and newspapers articles—as well as WNIA literature, Mathes draws a complex picture of an organization that at times ignored traditional Indian practices and denied individual agency, even as it provided dispossessed and impoverished people with healthcare and adequate housing. And at the center of this picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.
Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s
Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin
Underscoring the diversity of women’s experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.
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