Telling tales
Subtitle: essays in western women's history
By: edited by Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne.
Contributors: Cavanaugh, Catherine Anne, 1945-; Warne, R. R. 1952-
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Women -- Canada, Western -- History -- 19th century.; Women -- Canada, Western -- History -- 20th century.; Women pioneers -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.; Women pioneers -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.; Femmes -- Canada (Ouest) -- Histoire.; Pionnières -- Canada (Ouest) -- Histoire.; Canada, Western -- History -- 19th century.; Canada, Western -- History -- 20th century.; Canada (Ouest) -- Histoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: "I wish the men were half as good" : gender constructions in the Canadian north-western mission field, 1860-1940 / Myra Rutherdale; value: Categories and terrains of exclusion  : constructing the "Indian woman" in the early settlement era in western Canada / Sarah Carter; value: Imagining native women : feminine discourse and four women travelling the northwest coast / Nancy Pagh; value: Irene Marryat Parlby : an "imperial daughter" in the Canadian west, 1896-1934 / Catherine A. Cavanaugh; value: Gender(ed) tensions in the work and politics of Alberta farm women, 1905-1929 / Sheila McManus; value: Childbirth on the Canadian prairies, 1880-1930 / Nanci Langford; value: Nursing nation builders : the "council idea," western women, and the founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, 1896-1900 / Beverly Boutilier; value: Scattered but not lost : Mennonite domestic servants in Winnipeg, 1920s-50s / Frieda Esau Klippenstein; value: Negotiating sex and gender in the Ukrainian block settlement : east central Alberta between the Wars / Frances Swyripa; value: "Abundant faith" : nineteenth-century African-Canadian women on Vancouver Island / Sherry Edmunds-Flett; value: Marriage, family, and the cooperative ideal : the Telfords / Ann Leger-Anderson.