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One step over the line : toward a history of women in the North American Wests

Title
One step over the line : toward a history of women in the North American Wests / Elizabeth Jameson & Sheila McManus, editors.
Publication
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Athabasca : AU Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Jameson, Elizabeth.
  • McManus, Sheila.
Description
xxvii, 446 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The West unbound, social and cultural studies series
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Connecting the women's Wests / Elizabeth Jameson -- Unsettled pasts, unsettling borders : women, Wests, nations / Sheila McManus -- Making connections : gender, race, and place in Oregon country / Susan Armitage -- A transborder family in the Pacific North West : reflecting on race and gender in women's history / Sylvia van Kirk -- Writing women into the history of the North American Wests, one woman at a time / Jean Barman -- "That understanding with nature" : region, race, and nation in women's stories from the modern Canadian and American grassland West / Molly P. Rozum -- The perils of rural women's history : a note to storytellers who study the West's unsettled past / Joan M. Jensen -- The great white mother : maternalism and American Indian child removal in the American West, 1880-1940 / Margaret D. Jacobs -- Pushing physical, racial, and ethnic boundaries / Edith Lucas and public education in British Columbia, 1903-1989 / Helen Raptis -- "Crossing the line" : American prostitutes in Western Canada, 1895-1925 / Char Smith -- "Talented and charming strangers from across the line" : gendered nationalism, class privilege, and the American Woman's Club of Calgary / Nora Faires -- Excerpts from "Pourin' Down Rain" / Cheryl Foggo -- "A union without women is only half organized" : Mine Mill, women's auxiliaries, and Cold War politics in the North American Wests / Laurie Mercier -- Jailed heroes and kitchen heroines : class, gender, and the Medalta Potteries strike in postwar Alberta / Cynthia Loch-Drake -- Gendered steps across the border : teaching the history of women in the American and Canadian Wests / Mary Murphy.
Call Number
JFE 09-1317
ISBN
  • 9780888645012
  • 0888645015
LCCN
2008428374
OCLC
185022640
Title
One step over the line : toward a history of women in the North American Wests / Elizabeth Jameson & Sheila McManus, editors.
Imprint
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Athabasca : AU Press, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
The West unbound, social and cultural studies series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Jameson, Elizabeth.
McManus, Sheila.
Research Call Number
JFE 09-1317
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