Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Abstract
The history of Ukrainian..Canadian women has never before been told so completely from the women's perspective, and Swyripa has made a valuable contribution to the historiography of Canada's female pioneers. By exploring the activities and goals of various women's organizations, she examines these women's sense of their own identity both within the boundaries of the Ukrainian community itself and within the larger Canadian context. Swyripa's main thesis is that a wide gulf exists between what she calls the "grassroots" conception of Ukrainian..Canadian identity, embodied in the apolitical image of Baba the homebody, and the "community elite" conception of a politically engaged pioneer heroine drawing her inspiration from historical models in Ukraine.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:3 (Summer 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.