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Imperial plots : women, land, and the spadework of British colonialism on the Canadian Prairies / / Sarah Carter



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Autore: Carter Sarah <1954-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Imperial plots : women, land, and the spadework of British colonialism on the Canadian Prairies / / Sarah Carter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Winnipeg, Manitoba : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 pages) : illustrations, tables
Disciplina: 305.409712
Soggetto topico: Women - Prairie Provinces - Social conditions
Agriculture - Prairie Provinces - History - 20th century
Women pioneers - Prairie Provinces - History - 20th century
Frontier and pioneer life - Prairie Provinces
Minority women - Prairie Provinces - Social conditions - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Prairie Provinces Race relations History 20th century
Prairie Provinces Ethnic relations History 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover -- 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Sarah 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Imperial plots  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-88755-818-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910136628803321
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