An anthology of essays examining a range of women’s experiences in Saskatchewan across different periods and communities. The contributions address themes of ethnicity, migration, labour, and social organization.
Included essays are: “Great Women, Separate Spheres, and Diversity: Comments on Saskatchewan Women’s Historiography”; “The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan”; “‘Le Grande Nostalgie’: French Speaking Women and Homesickness in Early Twentieth-Century Saskatchewan”; “‘A Woman of Valour Who Can Find?’: Jewish-Saskatchewan Women in Two Rural Settings, 1882–1939”; “The ‘Lady Imperialist’ and the Great War: The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire in Saskatchewan, 1914–1918”; “Engendering Resistance: Women Respond to Relief in Saskatoon, 1930–1932”; “‘You Did What Had to Be Done’: Life Histories of Four Saskatchewan Farmers’ Wives”; “From Bush to the Village to the City: Pinehouse Lake Aboriginal Women Adapt to Change”; and “‘Living in Dreams’: Oral Narratives of Three Recent Immigrant Women.”
