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Imperial plots : women, land, and the spadework of British colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19784
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Carter, Sarah
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 Ca24i
- Author
- Carter, Sarah
- Responsibility
- Sarah Carter
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- xxii, 455 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Women
- Prairies, Canadian
- Land use
- Agriculture
- Abstract
- "Sarah Carter's "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, and challenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the "spade-work" of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its surplus women. Yet far into the twentieth century there was persistent opposition to the idea that women could or should farm: British women were to be exemplars of an idealized white femininity, not toiling in the fields. In Canada, heated debates about women farmers touched on issues of ethnicity, race, gender, class, and nation. Despite legal and cultural obstacles and discrimination, British women did acquire land as homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, and speculators on the Canadian prairies. They participated in the project of dispossessing Indigenous people. Their complicity was, however, ambiguous and restricted because they were excluded from the power and privileges of their male counterparts. Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains, to the land army women of the First World War."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Narrowing opportunities for women : from the indigenous farmers of the Great Plains to the exclusions of the homestead regime -- "Land owners and enterprising settlers in the colonies" : British women farmers for Canada -- Widows and other immigrant women homesteaders : struggles and strategies -- Women who bought land : the "bachelor girl" settler, "Jack" May, and other celebrity farmers and ranchers -- Answering the call of empire : Georgina Binnie-Clark, farmer, author, lecturer -- "Daughters of British blood" or "hordes of men of alien race"? : the homesteads-for-British-women campaign -- The persistence of a "curiously strong prejudice" : from the First World War to the Great Depression.
- ISBN
- 978-0-88755-818-4 pbk
- Accession Number
- p2019-04
- Call Number
- 08.2 Ca24i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The West and beyond : new perspectives on an imagined region
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13906
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Carter, Sarah
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 C24w
- Author
- Carter, Sarah
- Responsibility
- [edited by] Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, Peter Fortna
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- xxv, 435 p. : ill., map, ports
- Series
- The West unbound: social and cultural studies
- Subjects
- Biography
- Ethnic groups
- First Nations
- Glenbow Museum
- Inuit
- Medicine
- Photography
- Politics
- Tourism
- Women
- Notes
- Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19-21 June, 2008. --Includes bibliographical references and index Partial contents: Cree intellectual traditions in history / Winona Wheeler, pp. 47-61; Visual space race and history in the North: photographic narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River Basin / Matt Dyce and James Opp, pp.65-93. - Pertains to photographers Charles W. Mathers and Ernest Brown; The kaleidoscope of madness: perceptions of insanity in British Columbia aboriginal populations, 1872-1950 / Kathryn McKay, pp.94-111; The expectations of a queen: identity and race politics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey, pp.153-155. - Pertains to controversy regarding 1954 Stampede Queen Evelyn Eagle Speaker known in the competition as "Princess Wapiti", pp.133-155 The Banff photographic exchange: albums, youth, skiing and memory making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler, pp.34-374. -- Pertains to photograph albums of Fulton Dunsmore, Cyril Paris, Peter Whyte and Fern Brewster Eric Harvie: without and within Robert Kroetsch's Alibi / Robyn Read, pp. 375-397
- ISBN
- 9781897425800
- Accession Number
- 8053
- Call Number
- 08.2 C24w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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