Chapter 5 Gender(ed) Tensions in the Work and Politics of Alberta Farm Women, 1905–29

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. “I Wish the Men Were Half as Good” 32
7. Categories and Terrains of Exclusion 60
8. Imagining Native Women 82
9. Irene Marryat Parlby 100
10. Gender(ed) Tensions in the Work and Politics of Alberta Farm Women, 1905–29 123
11. Childbirth on the Canadian Prairies, 1880–1930 147
12. Nursing Nation Builders 174
13. Scattered but Not Lost 200
14. Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement 232
15. “Abundant Faith” 261
16. Marriage, Family, and the Cooperative Ideal in Saskatchewan 281
17. Bibliography 335
18. Contributors 348
19. Index 351