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One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus
This unfamiliar territory is the borderlands of women's histories traversing the American and Canadian Wests. Specialists in women's history, settler societies, colonialism, storytelling, education, and native and borderlands studies introduced by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus pool their distinct contributions toward forging the very first comparative, transnational collection of its kind. Sixteen essays arising from the "Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History" conference at the University of Calgary comprise this foundational text. One Step Over the Line is not only the map; it is the bridgework to span the transnational, gendered divide—a must for readers who have been searching for a wide, inclusive perspective on our western past.
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Cover Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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SECTION ONE: TALKING ACROSS BORDERS
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1 CONNECTING THE WOMEN'S WESTS
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2 UNSETTLED PASTS, UNSETTLING BORDERS: Women, Wests, Nations
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SECTION TWO: RE-IMAGINING REGION
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3 MAKING CONNECTIONS: Gender, Race, and Place in Oregon Country
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4 A TRANSBORDER FAMILY IN THE PACIFIC NORTH WEST: Reflecting on Race and Gender in Women's History
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SECTION THREE: PEOPLE, PLACE, AND STORIES
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5 WRITING WOMEN INTO THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WESTS, ONE WOMAN AT A TIME
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6 "THAT UNDERSTANDING WITH NATURE": Region, Race, and Nation in Women's Stories from the Modern Canadian and American Grasslands West
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7 THE PERILS OF RURAL WOMEN'S HISTORY: (A Note to Storytellers Who Study the West's Unsettled Past)
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SECTION FOUR: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
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8 THE GREAT WHITE MOTHER: Maternalism and American Indian Child Removal in the American West, 1880–1940
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9 PUSHING PHYSICAL, RACIAL, AND ETHNIC BOUNDARIES: Edith Lucas and Public Education in British Columbia, 1903–1989
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SECTION FIVE: BORDER CROSSERS
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10 "CROSSING THE LINE": American Prostitutes in Western Canada, 1895–1925
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11 "TALENTED AND CHARMING STRANGERS FROM ACROSS THE LINE": Gendered Nationalism, Class Privilege, and the American Woman's Club of Calgary
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12 EXCERPTS FROM POURIN' DOWN RAIN
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SECTION SIX: THE BORDERLANDS OF WOMEN'S WORK
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13 "A UNION WITHOUT WOMEN IS ONLY HALF ORGANIZED": Mine Mill, Women's Auxiliaries, and Cold War Politics in the North American Wests
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14 JAILED HEROES AND KITCHEN HEROINES: Class, Gender, and the Medalta Potteries Strike in Postwar Alberta
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SECTION SEVEN: TEACHING BEYOND BORDERS
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15 GENDERED STEPS ACROSS THE BORDER: Teaching the History of Women in the American and Canadian Wests
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16 LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES: Teaching the History of Women in the U.S. and Canadian Wests
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Citable Link
Published: 2008
Publisher: Athabasca University Press and the University of Alberta Press (co-publisher)
- 978-1-77199-355-5 (ebook)
- 978-1-897425-20-6 (ebook)
- 978-0-88864-501-2 (paper)