One step over the line toward a history of women in the North American wests
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, Alta. :
Athabasca University Press
2008
[2008]. |
| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009435024806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
