The gentlewomen among them were barred by class from all but a few overcrowdedand underpaid occupations. Wheat and Woman also illuminates the sexualpolitics of ... » 

The gentlewomen among them were barred by class from all but a few overcrowdedand underpaid occupations. Wheat and Woman also illuminates the sexualpolitics of settlement. BinnieClark was only too familiar with the limitationsthat Canadian law placed on women. Among women of the prairies chief amongthese was the homestead law which excluded all but a handful of women from theright to claim a free farm from the Dominions public lands. This new reprintof BinnieClarks autobiographical writing includes an introduction by SusanJackel written for a 1979 edition of the text as well as a new scholarlyintroduction by historian Sarah A. Carter. Wheat and Woman is a fascinatingrecord of a gifted and determined womans experience in prairie farming and aunique document in Canadian social history. «