Full Description
This fifth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains a broad range of articles spanning the 1870s to the present and examines the mostly unexplored place of women in the history of the Canada's Prairie Provinces. From "Spinsters Need Not Apply" to "Negotiating Sex: Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement," women's roles in politics, law, agriculture, labour, and journalism are explored to reveal a complex portrait of women struggling to find safety, have careers, raise children, and be themselves in an often harsh environment. Launched in 2008, the History of the Prairie West Series is comprised of the very best historical articles previously published in the scholarly journal Prairie Forum .
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Wendee Kubik and Gregory P. Marchildon
Politics
1. The WCTU on the Prairies, 1886-1930: An Alberta-Saskatchewan Comparison
Nancy M. Sheehan
2. "Class, Gender, and Agrarian Socialism": The United Farm Women of Saskatchewan, 1926-1931
Cheryle Jahn
3. From Crusaders to Missionaries to Wives: Alberta Social Credit Women, 1932-1955
Bob Hesketh.
4. Women and the Public Sphere in Saskatchewan, 1905 to 2005
Cristine de Clercy
Law
5. Spinsters Need Not Apply: Six Single Women Who Attempted to Homestead in Saskatchewan between 1872 and 1914
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
6. Prairie Women and the Struggle for a Dower Law, 1905-1920
Margaret E. McCallum
7. "Go Home. Straighten Up. Live Decent Lives": Female Vagrancy and Social Respectability in Alberta, 1918-1993
David Bright
8. Hidden Homesteaders: Women, the State and Patriarchy in the Saskatchewan Wheat Economy, 1870-1930
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
Agriculture
9. Necessary for Survival: Women's and Children's Labour on Prairie Homesteads, 1871-1911
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
10. The Sheppard Journals: Gender Division of Labour on a Southern Alberta Ranch
Shirley Musekamp
11. A Female Frontier: Manitoba Farm Women in 1922
Sara Brooks Sundberg Labour
12. "The Country is a Stern Nurse": Rural Women, Urban Hospitals and the Creation of a Western Canadian Nursing Work Force, 1920-1940
Kathryn McPherson
13. 25¢ an Hour; 48 Hours a Week; More Toilets; Less Cats: The Labour Struggles of the "Girls" at the A. E. McKenzie Company in Brandon
Errol Black
Journalism
14. "Leaving the Hearth Fire Untended": Women and Public Pursuits in the Journalism of Kate Simpson Hayes
Constance A. Maguire
15. Annie Hollis: Organizing Prairie Women with The Western Producer
Cathy Holtslander Ethnicity
16. "Our Parents Did Not Raise Us To Be Independent": The Work and Schooling of Young Franco-Albertan Women, 1890-1940
Anne Gagnon
17. Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East-Central Alberta between the Wars
Frances Swyripa
Index
