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 undergirded its colonization and settlement.

This book cover a range of topics – African-American settlement on Vancouver Island, prairie childbirth narratives, and Mennonites as domestic servants are but three examples. They focus on women of both minority and dominant cultures and reflect the West’s characteristically mixed population. Telling Tales challenges founding myths of the region and invites a retelling of the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.

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

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

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774807951
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
372

Biographical note

Catherine A. Cavanaugh teaches women's studies in the Centre for Work and Community Studies at Athabasca University. Randi R. Warne teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Mount St. Vincent University.