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Telling tales : essays in western women's history / edited by Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cavanaugh, Catherine Anne, 1945-
Warne, R. R. (Randi Ruth), 1952-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--Canada, Western--History--19th century.
Women.
History.
Western Canada.
Women--Canada, Western--History--20th century.
Women pioneers--Canada--History--19th century.
Women pioneers.
Canada.
Women pioneers--Canada--History--20th century.
Canada, Western--History.
Canada, Western.
Physical Description:
xii, 359 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Vancouver : UBC Press, [2000]
Contents:
Chapter 1 "I Wish the Men Were Half as Good": Gender Constructions in the Canadian North-Western Mission Field, 1860-1940 / Myra Rutherdale 32
Chapter 2 Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the "Indian Woman" in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter 60
Chapter 3 Imagining Native Women: Feminine Discourse and Four Women Travelling the Northwest Coast / Nancy Pagh 82
Chapter 4 Irene Marryat Parlby: An "Imperial Daughter" in the Canadian West, 1896-1934 / Catherine A. Cavanaugh 100
Chapter 5 Gender(ed) Tensions in the Work and Politics of Alberta Farm Women, 1905-29 / Sheila McManus 123
Chapter 6 Childbirth on the Canadian Prairies, 1880-1930 / Nanci Langford 147
Chapter 7 Nursing Nation Builders: The "Council Idea," Western Women, and the Founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, 1896-1900 / Beverly Boutilier 174
Chapter 8 Scattered but Not Lost: Mennonite Domestic Servants in Winnipeg, 1920s-50s / Frieda Esau Klippenstein 200
Chapter 9 Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East Central Alberta between the Wars / Frances Swyripa 232
Chapter 10 "Abundant Faith": Nineteenth-Century African-Canadian Women on Vancouver Island / Sherry Edmunds-Flett 261
Chapter 11 Marriage, Family, and the Cooperative Ideal: The Telfords / Ann Leger-Anderson 281.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0774807946
OCLC:
45899066

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