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Title Women's history / edited by Wendee Kubik & Gregory P. Marchildon
Published Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (479 pages) : illustrations
Series History of the Prairie West series ; vol. 5
History of the Prairie West series ; v. 5.
Contents The WCTU on the prairies, 1886-1930: an Alberta-Saskatchewan comparison / Nancy M. Sheehan -- "Class, gender, and agrarian socialism": the United Farm Women of Saskatchewan, 1926-1931 / Cheryle Jahn -- From crusaders to missionaries to wives: Alberta Social Credit Women, 1932-1955 / Bob Hesketh -- Women and the public sphere in Saskatchewan, 1905 to 2005 / Cristine de Clercy -- Spinsters need not apply: six single women who attempted to homestead in Saskatchewan between 1872 and 1914 / Sandra Rollings-Magnusson -- Prairie women and the struggle for a Dower Law, 1905-1920 / Margaret E. McCallum -- "Go home, straighten up. Live decent lives": female vagrancy and social responsibility in Alberta, 1918-1993 / David Bright -- Hidden homesteaders: women, the state and patriarchy in the Saskatchewan wheat economy, 1870-1930 / Sandra Rollings-Magnusson -- Necessary for survival: women's and children's labour on prairie homesteads, 1871-1911 / Sandra Rollings-Magnusson -- The Sheppard journals: gender division of labour on a sourthern Alberta ranch / Shirley Musekamp -- A female frontier: Manitoba farm women in 1922 / Sara Brooks Sundberg -- "The country is a stern nurse": rural women, urban hospitals and the creation of a western Canadian nursing work force, 1920-1940 / Kathryn McPherson -- 25c an hour; 48 hours a week; more toilets; less cats: the labour struggles of the "girls" at the A.E. McKenzie company in Brandon / Errol Black -- "Leaving the hearth fire untended": women and public pursuits in the journalism of Kate Simpson Hayes / Constance A. Maguire -- Annie Hollis: organizing prairie women with The Western Producer / Cathy Holtslander -- "Our parents did not raise us to be independent": the work and schooling of young Franco-Albertan women, 1890-1940 / Anne Gagnon -- Negotiating sex and gender in the Ukrainian bloc settlement: east-central Alberta between the wars / Frances Swyripa
Summary "This fifth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains a broad range of articles spanning the 1870s to the present and examines the mostly unexplored place of women in the history of Canada's Prairie Provinces. From "Spinsters Need Not Apply" to "Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement," women's roles in politics, law, agriculture, labour, and journalism are explored to reveal a complex portrait of women struggling to find safety, have careers, raise children, and be themselves in an often harsh environment."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Prairie Provinces -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Women
Prairie Provinces
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Marchildon, Gregory P., 1956- editor.
Kubik, Wendee, 1951- editor.
LC no. 2014455430
ISBN 9780889773110
0889773114
9780889773325
0889773327
9780889773127
0889773122