| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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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. xii + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper.)

Domesticity was the female weapon of conquest. That this idea, first suggested by postcolonial critics of the British Raj in India, should find a home in the American West may seem surprising. Yet as Jane Simonsen explores how white middle-class women used the notion of the Christian home to "civilize" Native Americans, she makes perfectly good sense. She is not the first to examine domesticity and conquest in the West; important studies by Peggy Pascoe, Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, and Susan Yohn (among others) precede her. What Simonsen adds is the insight that domesticity failed not because of Native American resistance or reformers' self-absorption, but because of its own internal contradictions.

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