| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

A Woman's Place: Women Writing New Mexico. By Maureen E. Reed. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xi + 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95, paper.)

Maureen Reed's book explores why New Mexicans are so vexed when it comes to pinning down what home means to them. Her book is a series of biographies of six women who called New Mexico home over the twentieth century and made reputations for themselves in art, literature, politics, and local promotion. The first chapter investigates two Anglos, salon hostess Mabel Dodge Luhan and writer Mary Austin. Subsequent chapters address Cleofas Jaramillo, nuevamexicana author of Romance of a Little Village Girl (Albuquerque, 2000); Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, also a nuevamexicana and probably best known as author of We Fed Them Cactus (Albuquerque, 1989); Kay Bennett, a Navajo writer and politician; and Pablita Velarde, a Santa Clara Pueblo artist currently living in Albuquerque. Reed intriguingly juxtaposes lives that are rarely discussed in tandem. She skillfully glosses Luhan's and Austin's bohemian roots, nuevomexicano land holding and social stratification, Navajo politics, and Pueblo painting while whetting the appetite for more information on such resonant themes.

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