| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxvii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The West unbound, social and cultural studies series
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West unbound.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Women. |
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History. |
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Women -- Canada, Western -- History.
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Western Canada. |
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Canada -- Boundaries -- United States.
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Canada. |
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Boundaries. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Boundaries -- Canada.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Jameson, Elizabeth.
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McManus, Sheila.
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| ISBN |
9780888645012 |
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0888645015 |
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