One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888645015 ISBN 13: 9780888645012

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2022

Synopsis

This eclectic and carefully organized range of essays-from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies-is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and U.S. Wests. It explores, expands, and advances the aspects of women's history that cross national borders. Out of the talks presented at the 2002 "Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History," Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus have edited a foundational text for pioneering scholars of this emergent, interdisciplinary field.

About this title

Book Description:

The first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and U.S. Wests.

From the Back Cover:

Contributors: Susan Armitage Jean Barman Nora Faires Cheryl Foggo Margaret D. Jacobs Elizabeth Jameson Joan M. Jensen Cynthia Loch-Drake Sheila McManus Laurie Mercier Mary Murphy Helen Raptis Molly P. Rozum Char Smith Sylvia Van Kirk Margaret Walsh “We are stepping into unfamiliar territory.” This unfamiliar territory is the borderlands of women’s histories traversing the American and Canadian Wests. Specialists in women’s history, settler societies, colonialism, storytelling, education, and native and borderlands studies—introduced by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus—pool their distinct contributions toward forging the very first comparative, transnational collection of its kind. “We cannot build bridges across unmapped divides.” Sixteen essays arising from the “Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History” conference at the University of Calgary comprise this foundational text. One Step Over the Line is not only the map; it is the bridgework to span the transnational, gendered divide—a must for readers who have been searching for a wide, inclusive perspective on our western past. Elizabeth Jameson holds the Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Calgary. She was co-chair of the "Unsettled Pasts" conference organizing committee and has published extensively on the histories of western women and the Canada-United States borderlands. Sheila McManus is Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge. Her book, The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Alberta-Montana Borderlands, was co-published with the University of Alberta Press in 2005. Currently, she is writing a textbook on women in the U.S. West.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0888645015
• ISBN 13: 9780888645012
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Jameson Elizabeth, McManus Sheila