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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Section One: Talking Across Borders
    1. 1. Connecting the Women’s Wests
    2. 2. Unsettled Pasts, Unsettling Borders
  5. Section Two: Re-Imagining Region
    1. 3. Making Connections
    2. 4. A Transborder Family in the Pacific North West
  6. Section Three: People, Place, and Stories
    1. 5. Writing Women into the History of the North American Wests, One Woman at a Time
    2. 6. “That Understanding with Nature”
    3. 7. The Perils of Rural Women’s History
  7. Section Four: Pushing the Boundaries
    1. 8. The Great White Mother
    2. 9. Pushing Physical, Racial, and Ethnic Boundaries
  8. Section Five: Border Crossers
    1. 10. “Crossing the Line”
    2. 11. “Talented and Charming Strangers from Across the Line”
    3. 12. Excerpts From Pourin’ Down Rain
  9. Section Six: The Borderlands of Women’s Work
    1. 13. “A Union Without Women is Only Half Organized”
    2. 14. Jailed Heroes and Kitchen Heroines
  10. Section Seven: Teaching Beyond Borders
    1. 15. Gendered Steps Across the Border
    2. 16. Latitudes and Longitudes
  11. Contributors
  12. Index

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

SECTION ONE: TALKING ACROSS BORDERS

1CONNECTING THE WOMEN’S WESTS

ELIZABETH JAMESON

2UNSETTLED PASTS, UNSETTLING BORDERS

Women, Wests, Nations

SHELLA MCMANUS

SECTION TWO: RE-IMAGINING REGION

3MAKING CONNECTIONS

Gender, Race, and Place in Oregon Country

SUSAN ARMITAGE

4A TRANSBORDER FAMILY IN THE PACIFIC NORTH WEST

Reflecting on Race and Gender in Women’s History

SYLVIA VAN KIRK

SECTION THREE: PEOPLE, PLACE, AND STORIES

5WRITING WOMEN INTO THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WESTS, ONE WOMAN AT A TIME

JEAN BARMAN

6“THAT UNDERSTANDING WITH NATURE”

Region, Race, and Nation in Women’s Stories from the Modern Canadian and American Grasslands West

MOLLY P. ROZUM

7THE PERILS OF RURAL WOMEN’S HISTORY

(A Note to Story tellers Who Study the West’s Unsettled Past)

JOAN M. JENSEN

SECTION FOUR: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

8THE GREAT WHITE MOTHER

Maternalism and American Indian Child Removal in the American West, 1880–1940

MARGARET D. JACOBS

9PUSHING PHYSICAL, RACIAL, AND ETHNIC BOUNDARIES

Edith Lucas and Public Education in British Columbia, 1903–1989

HELEN RAPTIS

SECTION FIVE: BORDER CROSSERS

10“CROSSING THE LINE”

American Prostitutes in Western Canada, 1895–1925

CHAR SMITH

11“TALENTED AND CHARMING STRANGERS FROM ACROSS THE LINE”

Gendered Nationalism, Class Privilege, and the American Woman’s Club of Calgary

NORA FAIRES

12EXCERPTS FROM POURIN’ DOWN RAIN

CHERYL FOGGO

SECTION SIX: THE BORDERLANDS OF WOMEN’S WORK

13“A UNION WITHOUT WOMEN IS ONLY HALF ORGANIZED”

Mine Mill, Women’s Auxiliaries, and Cold War Politics in the North American Wests

LAURIE MERCIER

14JAILED HEROES AND KITCHEN HEROINES

Class, Gender, and the Medalta Potteries Strike in Postwar Alberta

CYNTHIA LOCH-DRAKE

SECTION SEVEN: TEACHING BEYOND BORDERS

15GENDERED STEPS ACROSS THE BORDER

Teaching the History of Women in the American and Canadian Wests

MARGARET WALSH

16LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES

Teaching the History of Women in the U. S. and Canadian Wests

MARY MURPHY

Contributors

Index

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