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1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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"Bury our sorrows in the sacred heart": Gender and the Metis response to colonialism -- the case of Sara and Louis Riel, 1848-83 / Lesley A. Erickson -- "From one whose home is among the Indians": Henrietta Muir Edwards and aboriginal peoples / Patricia A. Roome -- Clare Sheridan's western interlude: the importance of being well-connected / Graham A. MacDonald -- A conversation with Senator Thelma Chalifoux / Cora J. Voyageur -- Aboriginal and white women in the publications of John Maclean, Egerton Ryerson Young, and John McDougall / Kristin Burnett -- The "S" word: Reclaiming "Esquao" for aboriginal women / Muriel Stanley Venne -- White sauce and Chinese chews: recipes as post colonial metaphors / Mary Leah De Zwart -- "Complicated and clouded": The federal administration of marriage and divorce among the First Nations of western Canada, 1887-1906 / Sarah Carter -- Advice ideals and rural prairie realities: National and prairie scientific motherhood advice, 1920-29 / Nadine I. Kozak -- "I think so much of Edward": Family, favouritism, and gender on a prairie farm in the 1930s / Cristine Georgina Bye -- My mother's trunk / Olive Stickney -- Washtub westerns / Aritha Van Herk -- Delicious moments: Uncovering the hidden lives of western Canada's black pioneer women / Cheryl Foggo -- Nursing students at Medicine Hat General Hospital, 1894-1920 / Florence Melchior -- Peak potentials and performance anxieties: gender, mountaineering, and leadership in the Canadian west, 1906-40 / Siri Louie -- Lena Hanen and the conflicts of leadership in the twentiieth century / Elaine Leslau Silverman -- They called her chief: A tribute to Fort MacKay's indomitable leader, Dorothy McDonald / Cora J. Voyageur -- Unsettled futures: Will our stories be forgotten? / Eliane Leslau Silverman |
| Summary |
This collection stems from a recent conference at University of Calgary that included some of the most established names in the field of women's history in the US and Canada, as well as younger scholars, activists in the Aboriginal community and in farm women's organisations, volunteers in historical societies working to preserve women's voices, family and genealogical researchers, film-makers, a poet, a playwright and many others. Designed to generate writing and research about the West through women's eyes, the central goal of the conference was to spark dialogue across boundaries, whether geographic, cultural or disciplinary. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section discusses the role of women in history as community builders and cultural preservationists, and the second section is concerned with gender history in numerous disciplines such as history, education, nursing and communication studies.; This collection highlights the extent to which Western and women's history remains a contested or unsettled terrain and argues that the greatest strength of historical analyses that take sex and gender into account is their ability to complicate and consequently transcend regional myths and frontier legacies that emerged out of imperial and masculine priorities and perspectives |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Calgary, June 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-402) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Women -- Canada, Western -- History -- Congresses
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Women -- Canada, Western -- Social conditions -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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Soziale Situation
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Western Canada
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Kanada -- West
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Westen (Verenigde Staten)
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Canada.
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Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carter, Sarah, 1954-
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| ISBN |
142941166X |
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9781429411660 |
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9781552384701 |
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1552384705 |
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