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Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West

Anne M. Butler and Ona Siporin, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 7x9" softbound, 138 pages.

Uncommon Common Women is a multi-genre collection that will broaden and enrich the general reader's understanding of women's lives during the western emigration era. Uncommon Common Women is not about the school marm or the dance hall girl, rather it focuses on the forgotten roles and gritty realities of women's lives during an often brutally difficult time. Featured are nonwhite pioneers, indigenous women, criminals, nuns, educators, and suffragists. By combining historical narrative with storytelling and photographs, it takes the reader on a rich and rewarding historical journey of many images and many voices. This book is highly recommended, painstakingly researched, exceptionally well presented addition to all women's studies and western studies collections and reading lists.

Review Excerpt:

"Ona Siporin has an uncommon knack for both storytelling and graceful language. Her graceful prose style hints at the poetic and her personal involvent with her characters is such that you will know these women and feel their lives. Her style is engaging and personal. I recommend this book to women everywhere and to men who ought to think twice about showing women anything but admiration." -- Mim Victorville, California, 2001

Title: Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West

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