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This bibliography of archival sources on the history of women in Manitoba, includes material pre-1867 right until 1970s. It categories sources into general three parts focussed on identity, work and activities, and mentality, faith, and reform. Exploring women from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, it provides inroads into researching women roles in agriculture, business, education and health but also women and sexuality, women and culture, and women and politics.
Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Includes section "Book reviews."
An annotated list of 1,038 vascular plant types from Nevada is presented as well as biographical accounts of their collectors.