CONTENTS
SECTION ONE: TALKING ACROSS BORDERS
ELIZABETH JAMESON
2UNSETTLED PASTS, UNSETTLING BORDERS
Women, Wests, Nations
SHELLA MCMANUS
SECTION TWO: RE-IMAGINING REGION
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
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
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
Teaching the History of Women in the U. S. and Canadian Wests
MARY MURPHY