- Title
- Domestic geographies: the place of the Outing Matron in early twentieth century Tucson
- Creator
- Haskins, Victoria K.
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS) Vol. 32, Issue 2, p. 1-26
- Relation
- http://www.theasa.net/journals/name/australasian_journal_of_american_studies
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- In the early years of the twentieth century, the Bureau of Indian Affairs began to promote the employment of young Native American women as domestic servants in white households across the Southwest of the United States under what was known as “Outing” programs. As “Outing matrons” in the Indian Service, a number of women would be made responsible for the placement, supervision and regulation of young Native American women in domestic employment. This article focuses on the complex role of the Outing matrons who worked at Tucson, Arizona, between 1914 and 1934, as their simultaneously mobile, contained, and liminal position played out on spatial as well as social levels. The vexed place of the Tucson Outing Matrons provides us with an illuminating insight into the history of cross-cultural relationships in the Southwest and the spatial implications of women’s work, as a gendered site of government intervention, in the social and geographic construction of place.
- Subject
- Tucson, Arizona; Outing matrons; native americans
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1056486
- Identifier
- uon:16050
- Identifier
- ISSN:1838-9554
- Language
- eng
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