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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jameson, Elizabeth, editor.

McManus, Sheila, editor.

Series:

The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies

Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Canada, Western--History--Congresses.

Women.

Women--West (U.S.)--History--Congresses.

Canada--Boundaries--United States--Congresses.

Canada.

United States--Boundaries--Canada--Congresses.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Athabasca University Press 2008

Edmonton, Alta. : University of Alberta Press, [2008].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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's history that cross national borders. Out of the talks presented at the 2002 "Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History," Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus have edited a foundational text with a wide, inclusive perspective on our western past.

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9786612819568

9781282819566

1282819569

9781897425206

1897425201

OCLC:

270936888

Publisher Number:

heb40021 hdl