Telling tales : essays in Western women's history /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cavanaugh, Catherine Anne, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2000.
Vancouver : [2000]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "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.