Imperial Plots : Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies / Sarah Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Sarah, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Prairie Provinces.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Women pioneers--Prairie Provinces.

Women pioneers.

Women in agriculture--Prairie Provinces--History--20th century.

Women in agriculture.

Minority women--Prairie Provinces--Social conditions--20th century.

Minority women.

Agriculture.

History.

Ethnic relations.

Race relations.

Social conditions.

Canada--Race relations--History--20th century.

Canada.

Canada--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Agriculture--Prairie Provinces--History--20th century.

Imperialism.

Minority women--Social conditions.

Prairie Provinces.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2016]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Sarah Carter's "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the "spade-work" of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its surplus women. Yet far into the twentieth century there was persistent opposition to the idea that women could or should farm: British women were to be exemplars of an idealized white femininity, not toiling in the fields. In Canada, heated debates about women farmers touched on issues of ethnicity, race, gender, class, and nation. Despite legal and cultural obstacles and discrimination, British women did acquire land as homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, and speculators on the Canadian prairies. They participated in the project of dispossessing Indigenous people. Their complicity was, however, ambiguous and restricted because they were excluded from the power and privileges of their male counterparts. Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains, to the land army women of the First World War."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Narrowing Opportunities For Women: From The Indigenous Farmers of the Great Plains to the Exclusions of the Homestead Regime 29

Chapter 2 "Land Owners and Enterprising Settlers in the Colonies": British Women Farmers For Canada 85

Chapter 3 Widows And Other Immigrant Women Homesteaders: Struggles and Strategies 147

Chapter 4 Women Who Bought Land: The "Bachelor Girl" Settler. "Jack" May, and Other Celebrity Farmers and Ranchers 207

Chapter 5 Answering the Call of Empire: Georgina Binnie-Clark, Farmer, Author, Lecturer 245

Chapter 6 "Daughters Of British Blood" Or "Hordes of Men of Alien Race"?: The Homesteads-For-British-Women Campaign 287

Chapter 7 The Persistence of a "Curiously Strong Prejudice": From The First World War to the Great Depression 327.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Carter, Sarah, 1954-, author. Imperial plots.

ISBN:

9780887558184

0887558186

OCLC:

948339711