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Review of Garceau-Hagen, Ed., Portraits of Women in the American West.

Review of Garceau-Hagen, Ed., Portraits of Women in the American West. Pacific Historical Review America-born Japanese women for hospital deliveries. She reveals that, as targets of Americanization campaigns in the early twentieth century, and in the context of their post-World War II release from incarceration and martial law, American-born Japanese women "understood well the dangers of not appearing to be part of the American mainstream" (p. 181). Thus eschewing the sanba in favor of hospitals was but one mechanism by which Japanese women could demonstrate loyalty to the American nation and conformity to American cultural practices. Despite the demise of their profession in the United States, however, the sanba retained their respected status in their communities, and Smith's engaging work ensures that their contributions to American history will not be easily forgotten. University of Guam ANNE PEREZ HATTORI Portraits of Women in the American West. Edited by Dee Garceau-Hagen. (New York, Routledge, 2005. xii + 273 pp. $85 cloth, $22.95 paper) This lively and readable book presents nine biographical essays about a diverse group of American women living "on the northern plains, in the intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California." Each story gives the reader "a window on gender relations in these regions during the late nineteenth and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pacific Historical Review University of California Press

Review of Garceau-Hagen, Ed., Portraits of Women in the American West.

IRWIN, MARY ANN
Pacific Historical Review , Volume 76 (4) – Nov 1, 2007
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University of California Press
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10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.646
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Pacific Historical Review America-born Japanese women for hospital deliveries. She reveals that, as targets of Americanization campaigns in the early twentieth century, and in the context of their post-World War II release from incarceration and martial law, American-born Japanese women "understood well the dangers of not appearing to be part of the American mainstream" (p. 181). Thus eschewing the sanba in favor of hospitals was but one mechanism by which Japanese women could demonstrate loyalty to the American nation and conformity to American cultural practices. Despite the demise of their profession in the United States, however, the sanba retained their respected status in their communities, and Smith's engaging work ensures that their contributions to American history will not be easily forgotten. University of Guam ANNE PEREZ HATTORI Portraits of Women in the American West. Edited by Dee Garceau-Hagen. (New York, Routledge, 2005. xii + 273 pp. $85 cloth, $22.95 paper) This lively and readable book presents nine biographical essays about a diverse group of American women living "on the northern plains, in the intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California." Each story gives the reader "a window on gender relations in these regions during the late nineteenth and

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Published: Nov 1, 2007

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