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Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919

Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919. By Jane E. Simonsen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 266 pp. $59.95/$22.50 paper.

Jane Simonsen's Making Home Work is the kind of project Amy Kaplan made possible with her essay "Manifest Domesticity" and her refraining of the discourses of domesticity as complicit in and actually even partly constitutive of US imperialism. Simonsen looks at the interactions between white and Native American women on the western frontier as they labor together and apart to develop newly transformative notions of "home" and "work." For most of the white women discussed in the text, the ...

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