Sarah Carter FRSC is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.
"Imperial Plots is a scathing indictment of the power of unchecked
patriarchy. Whether found in the person of Frank Oliver, the
dogmatic minister of the interior, in the repeal of dower rights,
or in the widely held belief that women farmers were unnatural, the
systematic constraint of women is the core of this story and a tale
of imperial plotting."--Mary Murphy "The Canadian Historical
Review"
"Imperial Plots provides a valuable correction to the masculinist
lens through which prairie history is so often viewed."--Penni
Mitchell "Canada's History"
"Imperial Plots, with its double meaning, is a perfect title for
Sarah Carter's investigation of women's efforts to acquire land of
their own in western Canada from 1870 to 1930."--Marilyn Barber
"Pacific Historical Review"
"Every chapter of Imperial Plots adds new and interesting details
and their cumulative effect is enlightening. By considering the
wider context so carefully and fully, Carter has made a major
contribution to the scholarship on women and moved our thinking far
beyond the heroism of individual homesteading women. Equally, she
firmly drives a nail in the coffin of scholars who still insist
that gender played no role in the formation and implementation of
imperial policy. In sum, she has changed the terms of our
historical questions."--Sue Armitage "Canadian Journal of History"
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