Red Dirt Women At Home on the Oklahoma Plains |
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| Author:
| Kates, Susan |
| Foreword by:
| Askew, Rilla |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8061-4359-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled, gaunt-faced mother familiar from Dust Bowl photographs. In
Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one-dimensional characterizations by exploring--and celebrating--the...
More DescriptionFor many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled, gaunt-faced mother familiar from Dust Bowl photographs. In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one-dimensional characterizations by exploring--and celebrating--the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable.