Table of Contents:
  • 1. Women in the Courts Conformity and Dissonance before the War, 1821-1846
  • 2. Women under Siege: Sexuality and the Gendered Economics of Colonization, 1840-1852
  • 3. Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880
  • 4. The Politics of Disidentification and Recuperation: Notations about the "New" Western American History.