| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

True Women & Westward Expansion. By Adrienne Caughfield. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. xii + 178 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $32.95.)

Manifest destiny has traditionally been viewed as a masculine enterprise of military and political battles. In True Women & Westward Expansion, Adrienne Caughfield demonstrates that many white women also supported the expansionist cause during the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, morally superior "true women" played a central role in carrying "civilization" to Texas through their domestic labors and social reform efforts. Anglo-American women maintained the domestic sphere, sewed banners for men's expeditions, and promoted church construction and temperance. Unfortunately, Caughfield focuses primarily on the exploits of a handful of women who played more dramatic roles in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War, or published books supporting expansion into Texas and beyond to Latin America. Whether they accompanied men on expeditions, remained behind in endangered homes, or wrote novels glorifying filibuster expeditions, Caughfield rightly honors these women's contributions. However, she fails to significantly revise older models of expansion as a primarily male pursuit.

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