Women's place on the American frontier
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The feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s inspired many women historians to write about women and their role in frontier development in America. Although, the main activity of these women was domestic, during later stages of frontier development, many were involved in commercial activity including prostitution. These recovered histories provide places for white, African American and Chinese women who played important roles in frontier development. Traditionally, women have been either ignored by frontier history or described in male-defined ways, a pattern established by Frederick Jackson Turner.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 1995
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Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis and the self-consciousness of America
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Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis continued the American Promise because it stated that every American would share in the economic wealth generated by the next evolutionary step of American society though unequally. Turner believed that history was the key to understanding societal evolution and the evolution of self-consciousness. He thought that Americans were linked by their common decision to cut ties with the past, meaning Europe, and that the individuality of the frontier would naturally evolve into the cooperation necessary for economic growth.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 1993
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"Confusion of mind": colonial and post-colonial discourses about frontier encounters
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Colonial discourses expounding on frontier experiences largely ignored the perspectives of indigenous peoples while postcolonial literature incorporated varied perspectives while also emphasizing the female experience as analogized to colonialism. Postcolonial authors managed to develop innovative forms of self- and collective expression which challenged dualistic notions of savagery and civilization. It is this undermining of cultural certainties that create doubts about cultural absolutes that is the triumph of postcolonialists.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 1998
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