LEADER 04407nam 2200625 450 001 9910136628803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-88755-818-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000902887 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4737051 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5220848 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4952098 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5220848 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11526344 035 $a(OCoLC)953332141 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4952098 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL964087 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000902887 100 $a20180403h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aImperial plots $ewomen, land, and the spadework of British colonialism on the Canadian Prairies /$fSarah Carter 210 1$aWinnipeg, Manitoba :$cUniversity of Manitoba Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (481 pages) $cillustrations, tables 311 $a0-88755-530-6 311 $a0-88755-532-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Narrowing Opportunities for Women: From the Indigenous Farmers of the Great Plains to the Exclusions of the Homestead Regime -- Chapter 2. "Land Owners and Enterprising Settlers in the Colonies": British Women Farmers for Canada -- Chapter 3. Widows and Other Immigrant Women Homesteaders: Struggles and Strategies -- Chapter 4. Women Who Bought Land: The "Bachelor Girl" Settler, "Jack" May, and Other Celebrity Farmers and Ranchers -- Chapter 5. Answering the Call of Empire: Georgina Binnie-Clark, Farmer, Author, Lecturer -- Chapter 6. "Daughters of British Blood" or "Hordes of Men of Alien Race"?: The Homesteads-For-British-Women Campaign -- Chapter 7. The Persistence of a "Curiously Strong Prejudice": From the First World War to the Great Depression -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aSarah Carter's "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges 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 array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century. 606 $aWomen$zPrairie Provinces$xSocial conditions 606 $aAgriculture$zPrairie Provinces$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen pioneers$zPrairie Provinces$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zPrairie Provinces 606 $aMinority women$zPrairie Provinces$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aPrairie Provinces$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aPrairie Provinces$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAgriculture$xHistory 615 0$aWomen pioneers$xHistory 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aMinority women$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.409712 700 $aCarter$b Sarah$f1954-$0835472 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136628803321 996 $aImperial plots$91927560 997 $aUNINA