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"Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American frontier. In an attempt to determine the meanings found in the pioneer woman's everyday writings - from records of recipes to descriptions of washing floors - Janet Floyd explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants.".

"Floyd argues that the figure of the pioneer housewife has been a significant one within general cultural debates about the home and the domestic life of women, on both sides of the Atlantic. She looks at the varied ideological work performed by this figure over the last 150 years and at what the pioneer woman signifies and has signified in national cultural debates concerning womanhood and home.".

"The autobiographies under discussion are not only of homemaking but also of emigration. Equally, these texts are about the enterprise of emigration, with several of them written to advise prospective emigrants.

Using the insights of diaspora and migration theory, Floyd shows that these writings portray a far subtler role for the pioneer woman than is suggested by previous scholars, who often see her either as participating directly in the overall domestication of colonial space or as being strictly marginal to that process."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
228

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Writing the pioneer woman
2002, University of Missouri Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-215) and index.

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Columbia
Other Titles
Pioneer woman

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.08
Library of Congress
PS366.F76 F58 2002, PS366.F76 F58 2002eb, PS366.F76F58 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 228 p. :
Number of pages
228

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Open Library
OL3557927M
Internet Archive
writingpioneerwo00floy
ISBN 10
0826213812
LCCN
2002017957
OCLC/WorldCat
48857825
Goodreads
4210324

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