edited by Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 359 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps, portraits ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-347) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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"I wish the men were half as good" : gender constructions in the Canadian north-western mission field, 1860-1940 / Myra Rutherdale -- Categories and terrains of exclusion : constructing the "Indian woman" in the early settlement era in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Imagining native women : feminine discourse and four women travelling the northwest coast / Nancy Pagh -- Irene Marryat Parlby : an "imperial daughter" in the Canadian west, 1896-1934 / Catherine A. Cavanaugh -- Gender(ed) tensions in the work and politics of Alberta farm women, 1905-1929 / Sheila McManus -- Childbirth on the Canadian prairies, 1880-1930 / Nanci Langford -- Nursing nation builders : the "council idea," western women, and the founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, 1896-1900 / Beverly Boutilier -- Scattered but not lost : Mennonite domestic servants in Winnipeg, 1920s-50s / Frieda Esau Klippenstein -- Negotiating sex and gender in the Ukrainian block settlement : east central Alberta between the Wars / Frances Swyripa -- "Abundant faith" : nineteenth-century African-Canadian women on Vancouver Island / Sherry Edmunds-Flett -- Marriage, family, and the cooperative ideal : the Telfords / Ann Leger-Anderson.