Full Description
This eclectic and carefully organized range of essays-from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies-is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and U.S. Wests. It explores, expands, and advances the aspects of women's history that cross national borders. Out of the talks presented at the 2002 "Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History," Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus have edited a foundational text for pioneering scholars of this emergent, interdisciplinary field.
Contents
Connecting the Women's Wests; Unsettled Pasts, Unsettling Borders; Making Connections; A Transborder Family in the Pacific North West; Writing Women into the History of the North American Wests, One Woman at a Time; "That Understanding with Nature"; The Perils of Rural Women's History; The Great White Mother; Pushing Physical, Racial & Ethnic Boundaries; "Crossing the Line"; "Talented & Charming Strangers From Across the Line"; Excerpts From Pourin' Down Rain; "A Union Without Women is Only Half Organised"; Jailed Heroes & Kitchen Heroines; Genderered Steps Across the Border; Latitudes & Longitudes; Index.
