One step over the line toward a history of women in the North American Wests /
| Other Authors: | Jameson, Elizabeth., McManus, Sheila. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Edmonton : Athabasca :
University of Alberta Press ; AU Press,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
xxvii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: |
West unbound.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Connecting the women's Wests / Elizabeth Jameson
- Unsettled pasts, unsettling borders : women, Wests, nations / Sheila McManus
- Making connections : gender, race, and place in Oregon country / Susan Armitage
- A transborder family in the Pacific North West : reflecting on race and gender in women's history / Sylvia van Kirk
- Writing women into the history of the North American Wests, one woman at a time / Jean Barman
- "That understanding with nature" : region, race, and nation in women's stories from the modern Canadian and American grassland West / Molly P. Rozum
- The perils of rural women's history : a note to storytellers who study the West's unsettled past / Joan M. Jensen
- The great white mother : maternalism and American Indian child removal in the American West, 1880-1940 / Margaret D. Jacobs
- Pushing physical, racial, and ethnic boundaries / Edith Lucas and public education in British Columbia, 1903-1989 / Helen Raptis
- "Crossing the line" : American prostitutes in Western Canada, 1895-1925 / Char Smith
- "Talented and charming strangers from across the line" : gendered nationalism, class privilege, and the American Woman's Club of Calgary / Nora Faires
- Excerpts from "Pourin' Down Rain" / Cheryl Foggo
- "A union without women is only half organized" : Mine Mill, women's auxiliaries, and Cold War politics in the North American Wests / Laurie Mercier
- Jailed heroes and kitchen heroines : class, gender, and the Medalta Potteries strike in postwar Alberta / Cynthia Loch-Drake
- Gendered steps across the border : teaching the history of women in the American and Canadian Wests / Mary Murphy.