Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West Through Women's History

Edited by Sarah Carter, Lesley Erickson, Patricia Roome, and Char Smith

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ISBN 1-55238-177-3
442 pp.
6" x 9"

Women's Studies

About the Book

This collection stems from a recent conference at University of Calgary that included some of the most established names in the field of womenís history in the U.S. and Canada, as well as younger scholars, activists in the Aboriginal community and in farm womenís organizations, volunteers in historical societies working to preserve womenís voices, family and genealogical researchers, filmmakers, a poet, a playwright, and many others. Designed to generate writing and research about the West through womenís eyes, the central goal of the conference was to spark dialogue across boundaries, whether geographic, cultural, or disciplinary. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section discusses the role of women in history as community builders and cultural preservationists, and the second section is concerned with gender history in numerous disciplines such as history, education, nursing, and communication studies. This collection highlights the extent to which Western and womenís history remains a contested, or unsettled, terrain, and argues that the greatest strength of historical analyses that take sex and gender into account is their ability to complicate and, consequently, transcend regional myths and ìfrontierî legacies that emerged out of imperial and masculine priorities and perspectives.

About the Author

The editors of this collection are academics, activists, and professional organizers. They share a common interest in the role of women, both in a historical and contemporary context.

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