One step over the line : : toward a history of women in the North American wests /

One step over the line : : toward a history of women in the North American wests / / Elizabeth Jameson & Sheila McManus, editors.

This eclectic and carefully organized range of essays-from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies-is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and U.S. Wests. It explores, expands, and advances the aspects of women&...

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Superior document:Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
TeilnehmendeR:
Jameson, Elizabeth,
McManus, Sheila
Place / Publishing House:Edmonton, Alta. : : University of Alberta Press,, [2008].
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st edition.
Language:English
Series:The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (446 pages) :; illustrations, portraits
Notes:"This book is one product of the 'Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History' conference, held at the University of Calgary in June 2002"--P. xi.
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Table of Contents:
  • SECTION ONE: TALKING ACROSS BORDERS
  • 1 CONNECTING THE WOMEN'S WESTS
  • 2 UNSETTLED PASTS, UNSETTLING BORDERS: Women, Wests, Nations
  • SECTION TWO: RE-IMAGINING REGION
  • 3 MAKING CONNECTIONS: Gender, Race, and Place in Oregon Country
  • 4 A TRANSBORDER FAMILY IN THE PACIFIC NORTH WEST: Reflecting on Race and Gender in Women's History
  • SECTION THREE: PEOPLE, PLACE, AND STORIES
  • 5 WRITING WOMEN INTO THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WESTS, ONE WOMAN AT A TIME.
  • 6 ""THAT UNDERSTANDING WITH NATURE"": Region, Race, and Nation in Women's Stories from the Modern Canadian and American Grasslands West
  • 7 THE PERILS OF RURAL WOMEN'S HISTORY: (A Note to Storytellers Who Study the West's Unsettled Past)
  • SECTION FOUR: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
  • 8 THE GREAT WHITE MOTHER: Maternalism and American Indian Child Removal in the American West, 1880-1940
  • 9 PUSHING PHYSICAL, RACIAL, AND ETHNIC BOUNDARIES: Edith Lucas and Public Education in British Columbia, 1903-1989
  • SECTION FIVE: BORDER CROSSERS.
  • 10 ""CROSSING THE LINE"": American Prostitutes in Western Canada, 1895-1925
  • 11 ""TALENTED AND CHARMING STRANGERS FROM ACROSS THE LINE"": Gendered Nationalism, Class Privilege, and the American Woman's Club of Calgary
  • 12 EXCERPTS FROM POURIN' DOWN RAIN
  • SECTION SIX: THE BORDERLANDS OF WOMEN'S WORK
  • 13 ""A UNION WITHOUT WOMEN IS ONLY HALF ORGANIZED"": Mine Mill, Women's Auxiliaries, and Cold War Politics in the North American Wests
  • 14 JAILED HEROES AND KITCHEN HEROINES: Class, Gender, and the Medalta Potteries Strike in Postwar Alberta
  • SECTION SEVEN: TEACHING BEYOND BORDERS.
  • 15 GENDERED STEPS ACROSS THE BORDER: Teaching the History of Women in the American and Canadian Wests
  • 16 LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES: Teaching the History of Women in the U.S. and Canadian Wests
  • Contributors; Index.

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