4. Women and the Public Sphere in Saskatchewan, 1905 to 2005

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction to Women’s History 1
6. Politics
7. 1. The WCTU on the Prairies, 1886-1930: An Alberta-Saskatchewan Comparison 11
8. 2. “Class, Gender, and Agrarian Socialism”: The United Farm Women of Saskatchewan, 1926-1931 31
9. 3. From Crusaders to Missionaries to Wives: Alberta Social Credit Women, 1932-1955 53
10. 4. Women and the Public Sphere in Saskatchewan, 1905 to 2005 81
11. Law
12. 5. Spinsters Need Not Apply: Six Single Women Who Attempted to Homestead in Saskatchewan between 1872 and 1914 113
13. 6. Prairie Women and the Struggle for a Dower Law, 1905-1920 137
14. 7. “Go Home. Straighten Up. Live Decent Lives”: Female Vagrancy and Social Respectability in Alberta, 1918-1993 157
15. 8. Hidden Homesteaders: Women, the State and Patriarchy in the Saskatchewan Wheat Economy, 1870-1930 173
16. Agriculture
17. 9. Necessary for Survival: Women’s and Children’s Labour on Prairie Homesteads, 1871-1911 193
18. 10. The Sheppard Journals: Gender Division of Labour on a Southern Alberta Ranch 217
19. 11. A Female Frontier: Manitoba Farm Women in 1922 245
20. Labour
21. 12. “The Country is a Stern Nurse”: Rural Women, Urban Hospitals and the Creation of a Western Canadian Nursing Work Force, 1920-1940 269
22. 13. 25¢ an Hour; 48 Hours a Week; More Toilets; Less Cats: The Labour Struggles of the “Girls” at the A. E. McKenzie Company in Brandon 307
23. Journalism
24. 14. “Leaving the Hearth Fire Untended”: Women and Public Pursuits in the Journalism of Kate Simpson Hayes 343
25. 15. Annie Hollis: Organizing Prairie Women with The Western Producer 381
26. Ethnicity
27. 16. “Our Parents Did Not Raise Us To Be Independent”: The Work and Schooling of Young Franco-Albertan Women, 1890-1940 391
28. 17. Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East-Central Alberta between the Wars 415
29. Index 447