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Unsettled pasts : reconceiving the west through women's history
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- ISBN: 9781552381779
- ISBN: 1552381773
- ISBN: 1552381773 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xii, 420 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2005.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Calgary, June 2002. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references: p. 375-402. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Introduction / Sarah Carter, Lesley Erickson and Patricia Roome -- Pt. 1. Complicating categories : women as cultural mediators -- 2. "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 -- 3. "From one whose home is among the Indians" : Henrietta Muir Edwards and aboriginal peoples / Patricia A. Roome -- 4. Clare Sheridan's western interlude : the importance of being well-connected / Graham A. MacDonald -- 5. A conversation with senator Thelma Chalifoux / Cora J. Voyageur -- Pt. 2. Colonial projects and their legacies -- 6. Aboriginal and white women in the publications of John Maclean, Egerton Ryerson Young, and John McDougall / Kristin Burnett -- 7. The "S" word : reclaiming "Esquao" for aboriginal women / Muriel Stanley Venne -- 8. White sauce and Chinese chews : recipes as postcolonial metaphors / Mary Leah De Zwart -- Pt. 3. Family, region, nation -- 9. "Complicated and clouded" : the federal administration of marriage and divorce among the first nations of Western Canada, 1887-1906 / Sarah Carter -- 10. Advice ideals and rural Prairie realities : national and Prairie scientific motherhood advice, 1920-29 / Nadine I. Kozak -- 11. "I think so much of Edward" : family, favouritism, and gender on a Prairie farm in the 1930s / Cristine Georgina Bye -- Pt. 4. From the inside looking out : femininity and the "frontier" -- 12. My mother's trunk / Olive Stickney -- 13. Washtub westerns / Aritha Van Herk -- 14. Delicious moments : uncovering the hidden lives of Western Canada's black pioneer women / Cheryl Foggo -- 15. Nursing students at medicine hat general hospital, 1894-1920 / Florence Melchior -- Pt. 5. Negotiating constraints : on leaders and leadership -- 16. Peak potentials and performance anxieties : gender, mountaineering, and leadership in the Canadian West, 1906-40 / Siri Louie -- 17. Lena Hanen and the conflicts of leadership in the twentieth century / Eliane Leslau Silverman -- 18. They called her chief : a tribute to Fort MacKay's indomitable leader, Dorothy McDonald / Cora J. Voyageur -- 19. Unsettled futures : will our stories be forgotten? / Eliane Leslau Silverman. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | HQ 1453 U54 2005 (Text) | 26040002711006 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
