| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860–1919. By Jane E. Simonsen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 266 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3032-1. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5695-6.)

Jane E. Simonsen's study organizes ideas about the construction of domesticity, the civilizing mission of Anglo women, and American Indian assimilation in ways that illuminate another area of contest within the multiple contact zones of the American West. Middle-class Anglo women in the West, both permanent settlers and visitors, inhabited a place where a struggle to maintain middle-class status and values raged, and domesticity permitted women to claim and establish power over others. As the author comments, "bad housekeeping became a marker of racial inferiority" (p. 3). American Indian women also came under the influence of Euro-American ideas of domesticity.

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