Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
May 2002
Abstract
This new collection of essays is a welcome contribution to the literature on women in the Canadian West from 1880 to 1940. It continues the fine work the editors started in their 1993 collection Standing on New Ground: Women in Alberta. Both the essays themselves and the editors' cogent and insightful introduction "show the diversity of newcomer women's experiences while highlighting common themes in the construction and reshaping of gender relationships during the colonization and settlement of western Canada." This volume will be of interest not just to scholars of Canadian women's history but of women in the North American West and in colonial and post-colonial settings.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2 (Spring 2002). Published by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Copyright © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies. Used by permission.