Looking back : Canadian women's prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity /

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Author / Creator:	Matthews, S. Leigh (Sandra Leigh), 1967-
Imprint:	Calgary [Alta.] : University of Calgary Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 418 pages) : portrait, digital file.
Language:	English
Series:	The West series, 1922-6519 ; 1 West series (Calgary, Alta.) ; 1.
Subject:	Women pioneers -- Prairie Provinces -- Biography. Women pioneers -- Prairie Provinces -- Social conditions. Women pioneers in literature. Agriculture in literature. Frontier and pioneer life -- Prairie Provinces. Agriculture in literature. Frontier and pioneer life. Women pioneers. Women pioneers in literature. Women pioneers -- Social conditions. Prairie Provinces. Biographies. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13417085

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ISBN:	9781552385098 1552385094 9781552385951 1552385957 9781552385975 1552385973 9781552380963 1552380963
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-409) and index.
Summary:	When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the ""cheerful helpmate"" and the grim deprivation of the ""reluctant immigrant."" In Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity, Leigh Matthews shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era. Reopening for examination a substantial body of memoirs published after 1950 but now largely out of print, Matthews engages critical and feminist th.
Other form:	Print version: Matthews, S. Leigh. Looking Back : Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity. Calgary : University of Calgary Press, ©2000 9781552380963

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