Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies - Carter, Sarah

Clean, tight, unmarked; light crease to upper inside back corner of cover; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; This book examines the goals, aspirations, and challenges met by women who sought land of their own. 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. This book 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.
Near Fine
Soft cover
University of Manitoba Press
2014
Winnipeg, MB