Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Terminology
Introduction
Chapter 1. Narrowing Opportunities for Women: From the Indigenous Farmers of the Great Plains to the Exclusions of the Homestead Regime
Chapter 2. "Land Owners and Enterprising Settlers in the Colonies": British Women Farmers for Canada
Chapter 3. Widows and Other Immigrant Women Homesteaders: Struggles and Strategies
Chapter 4. Women Who Bought Land: The "Bachelor Girl" Settler, "Jack" May, and Other Celebrity Farmers and Ranchers
Chapter 5. Answering the Call of Empire: Georgina Binnie-Clark, Farmer, Author, Lecturer
Chapter 6. "Daughters of British Blood" or "Hordes of Men of Alien Race"?: The Homesteads-For-British-Women Campaign
Chapter 7. The Persistence of a "Curiously Strong Prejudice": From the First World War to the Great Depression
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index