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Unsettled pasts : reconceiving the west through women's history / edited by Sarah Carter [and others].

Carter, Sarah, 1954- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1552381773
  • ISBN: 9781552381779
  • Physical Description: xii, 420 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Calgary, June 2002.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-402) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"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 -- "From one whose home is among the Indians": Henrietta Muir Edwards and aboriginal peoples / Patricia A. Roome -- Clare Sheridan's western interlude: the importance of being well-connected / Graham A. MacDonald -- A conversation with Senator Thelma Chalifoux / Cora J. Voyageur -- Aboriginal and white women in the publications of John Maclean, Egerton Ryerson Young, and John McDougall / Kristin Burnett -- The "S" word: Reclaiming "Esquao" for aboriginal women / Muriel Stanley Venne -- White sauce and Chinese chews: recipes as post colonial metaphors / Mary Leah De Zwart -- "Complicated and clouded": The federal administration of marriage and divorce among the First Nations of western Canada, 1887-1906 / Sarah Carter -- Advice ideals and rural prairie realities: National and prairie scientific motherhood advice, 1920-29 / Nadine I. Kozak -- "I think so much of Edward": Family, favouritism, and gender on a prairie farm in the 1930s / Cristine Georgina Bye -- My mother's trunk / Olive Stickney -- Washtub westerns / Aritha Van Herk -- Delicious moments: Uncovering the hidden lives of western Canada's black pioneer women / Cheryl Foggo -- Nursing students at Medicine Hat General Hospital, 1894-1920 / Florence Melchior -- Peak potentials and performance anxieties: gender, mountaineering, and leadership in the Canadian west, 1906-40 / Siri Louie -- Lena Hanen and the conflicts of leadership in the twentiieth century / Elaine Leslau Silverman -- They called her chief: A tribute to Fort MacKay's indomitable leader, Dorothy McDonald / Cora J. Voyageur -- Unsettled futures: Will our stories be forgotten? / Eliane Leslau Silverman.
Subject:
Women > Canada, Western > History > Congresses.
Women > Canada, Western > Social conditions > Congresses.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Canada, Western.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

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