One Step Over the Line:
Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests

 

About the Book

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 with a wide, inclusive perspective on our western past.

About the Authors

Elizabeth Jameson holds the Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Calgary. She was Co-Chair of the “Unsettled Pasts” conference organizing committee and has published extensively. Sheila McManus is Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta. Currently, she is writing a textbook on women in the U.S. West.

 

 

 

 

 

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DownloadSECTION ONE: TALKING ACROSS BORDERS

Download1. CONNECTING THE WOMEN'S WESTS

Download2. UNSETTLED PASTS, UNSETTLING BORDERS
Women, Wests, Nations

DownloadSECTION TWO: RE-IMAGINING REGION

Download3. MAKING CONNECTIONS
Gender,Race, and Place in Oregon Country

Download4. A TRANSBORDER FAMILY IN THE PACIFIC NORTH WEST
Reflecting on Race and Gender in Women's History

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Download 5. WRITING WOMEN INTO THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WESTS, ONE WOMAN AT A TIME

Download 6. "THAT UNDERSTANDING WITH NATURE"
Region,Race, and Nation in Women's Stories from the Modern Canadian and American Grasslands West

Download 7. THE PERILS OF RURAL WOMEN'S HISTORY
(A Note to Storytellers Who Study the West's Unsettled Past)

Download SECTION FOUR: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

Download 8. THE GREAT WHITE MOTHER
Materalism and American Indian Child Removal in the American West, 1880-1940

Download9. PUSHING PHYSICAL, RACIAL, AND ETHNIC BOUNDARIES
Edith Lucas and Public Education in Bristish Columbia, 1903-1989

DownloadSECTION FIVE: BORDER CROSSERS

Download 10. "CROSSING THE LINE"
American Prostitutes in Western Canada, 1895-1925

Download11. "TALENTED AND CHARMING STRANGERS FROM ACROSS THE LINE"
Gendered Nationalism, Class Privilege, and the American Woeman's Club of Calgary

Download 12. EXCERPTS FROMPOURIN' DOWN RAIN

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Download13. "A UNION WITHOUT WOMEN IS ONLY HALF ORGANIZED"
Mine Mill, Women's Auxiliaries, and Cold War Politics in the North American Wests

Download 14. JAILED HEROES AND KITCHEN HEROINES
Class,Gender, and the Medalta Potteries Strike in Postwar Alberta

Download SECTION SEVEN: TEACHING BEYOND BORDERS

Download15. GENERED STEPS ACROSS THE BORDER
Teaching the History of Women in the American and Canadian Wests

Download 16. LATITUDES AND LOGITUDES
Teaching the History of Women in the U.S. and Canadian Wests

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An Interview with Elizabeth Jameson