Gender Studies

This remarkable work of anthropology breaks new ground in the study of Latin American female shamanism.

A rich portrait of a woman's life in the American West of the early 1900s--a love story that reads like a novel.

Scharff looks at women's struggles to be accepted as drivers.

Roscoe presents the life of We'wha (1849–1896), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history.

These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.

Stories by Willa Cather, Mary Austin, Mari Sandoz, and Leslie Silko, among other women writers, who have illuminated the Western experience.

This dramatic and turbulent history of UCAPAWA is a major contribution to the new labor history in its carefully documented account of minority women controlling their union and regulating their working lives.

Autobiographical account describing Luhan's first months in New Mexico.

The definitive biography of a cultural icon.

This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona has become a classic. Based on the life of the author's mother, it overturns every stereotype of western womanhood.