| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934. By Margaret D. Jacobs. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiii + 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $45.00, cloth; $20.00, paper.)

Margaret Jacobs's monograph explores white feminists' changing attitudes toward Pueblo cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jacobs argues that "an upheaval in white middle-class views of proper gender roles and sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century . . . influenced the change in white attitudes and policy toward Native Americans," opening the door for a more accepting view toward Native cultures (p. 20). While women's historians have explored the growing tension over women's roles and sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century, Jacobs argues that few historians have studied the impact of this tension on race relations. Jacobs explores the relationship between what she calls anti-modern feminists and Pueblo cultures, arguing that the feminists, ironically, "helped to usher in the modern life they so detested" while simultaneously contributing the "romanticization and commodification" of the Pueblo cultures that they so admired (pp. 22–3). Further Jacobs adds, at the same time white feminists asserted their right to sexual expressiveness and individuality, they worked to create and uphold essentialist notions of race and gender within Pueblo cultures. . . .

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