Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History

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Illustrations Introduction / Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne 1. I Wish the Men Were Half as Good: Gender Constructions in the Canadian North-Western Mission Field, 1860-1940 / Myra Rutherdale 2. Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the Indian Woman in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter 3. Imagining Native Women: Feminine Discourse and Four Women Travelling the Northwest Coast / Nancy Pagh 4. Irene Marryat Parlby: An Imperial Daughter in Western Canada, 1896-1935 / Catherine A. Cavanaugh 5. Gender(ed) Tensions in the Work and Politics of Alberta Farm Women, 1905-29 / Sheila McManus 6. Childbirth on the Canadian Prairies, 1880-1930 / Nanci Langford 7. Nursing Nation Builders: The Council Idea, Western Women, and the Founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, 1896-1930 / Beverly Boutilier 8. Scattered But Not Lost: Mennonite Domestic Servants in Winnipeg, 1920s-50s / Frieda Klippenstein 9. Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East Central Alberta between the Wars / Frances Swyripa 10. 'Abundant Faith': Nineteenth-Century African-Canadian Women on Vancouver Island / Sherry Edmunds-Flett 11. Marriage, Family, and the Cooperative Ideal: The Telfords / Ann Leger-Anderson Bibliography Contributors Index