From suffragette to homesteader: exploring British and Canadian colonial histories and women's politics through memoir
Introduction : "just a simple story, simply told : a memoir in context /Emily van der Meulen --Engaging in complex relationships : on reading and understanding women's historical life narratives /Vicki S. Hallett --Memories (1883-1952) /Ethel Marie Sentance --"Deeds, not words" : the struggle of the suffragettes in Edwardian Britain /June Purvis --Locating race in suffrage : discourses and encounters with race and empire in the British suffrage movement /Sumita Mukherjee --"From one part of the empire to another" : promoting a settler-colonial future in late nineteenth-century Canadian immigration handbooks /Jarett Henderson --Unsettling imperial ties : rethinking suffrage in the context of settler colonialism in Canada /Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell --"Faithful, brave-hearted pioneer women" : examining women's daily lives on Saskatchewan homesteads /Sandra Rollings-Magnusson --Sewing the threads of resilience : twentieth-century Indian homemakers' clubs in Western Canada /Sarah A. Nickel --Post script : women and the vote in Canada : a brief timeline /Emily van der Meulen.