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Telling Tales

Essays in Western Women's History

Édité par Catherine A. Cavanaugh & Randi R. Warne
Catégories: Études sur les femmes, Études de genres, Groupes sociaux, Sciences sociales et culturelles, Sciences humaines et sociales
Éditeur: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774807951, 372 pages, Février 2001
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Table des matières

Illustrations

Introduction / Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne

1 I Wish the Men Were Half as Good: Gender Constructions in the Canadian North-Western Mission Field, 1860-1940 / Myra Rutherdale

2 Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the “Indian Woman” in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter

3 Imagining Native Women: Feminine Discourse and Four Women Travelling the Northwest Coast / Nancy Pagh

4 Irene Marryat Parlby: An “Imperial Daughter” in Western Canada, 1896-1935 / Catherine A. Cavanaugh

5 Gender(ed) Tensions in the Work and Politics of Alberta Farm Women, 1905-29 / Sheila McManus

6 Childbirth on the Canadian Prairies, 1880-1930 / Nanci Langford

7 Nursing Nation Builders: The Council Idea, Western Women, and the Founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, 1896-1930 / Beverly Boutilier

8 Scattered But Not Lost: Mennonite Domestic Servants in Winnipeg, 1920s-50s / Frieda Klippenstein

9 Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East Central Alberta between the Wars / Frances Swyripa

10 “Abundant Faith”: Nineteenth-Century African-Canadian Women on Vancouver Island / Sherry Edmunds-Flett

11 Marriage, Family, and the Cooperative Ideal: The Telfords / Ann Leger-Anderson

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

La description

Women played a vital role in the shaping of the  West in Canada
between the 1880s and 1940s.   Yet surprisingly little is known
about their contributions or the differences sex and gender made to the
opportunities and obstacles women encountered. Telling Tales
contributes to the rewriting of western Canada’s past by
integrating women into the shifting power matrix of class, race, and
gender that formed the basis of  colonization and settlement.

Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region
and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian
colonization and settlement.