{"product_id":"wheat-and-woman","title":"Wheat and Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn established writer before she came to Canada, Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) settled in Saskatchewan in 1905 to become a farmer. It was an unlikely ambition for a woman in her day, particularly an English gentlewoman, and in the opinion of many, an impossible one. The reaction of onlookers was unhesitatingly and unqualifiedly unsupportive. Binnie-Clark, however, proved their skepticism to be unfounded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1914, \u003ci\u003eWheat and Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is an autobiographical account of Georgina Binnie-Clark's first three years on the prairies, the story of how she learned to define and deal with her anomalous position in pre-war prairie society. Although Binnie-Clark does not dismiss the difficult lessons of life on the land for an 'English greenhorn,' or the loneliness of a woman pursuing what was considered to be a man's job, she emphasizes the unique opportunities for women in Canada. If life was difficult in Canada, it was impossible, for some, in England. With a surplus population of more than a million women, most stood almost no statistical chance of finding a husband in England. The gentlewomen among them were barred by class from all but a few overcrowded and underpaid occupations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWheat and Woman\u003c\/i\u003e also illuminates the sexual politics of settlement. Binnie-Clark was only too familiar with the limitations that Canadian law placed on women. Among women of the prairies, chief among these was the homestead law, which excluded all but a handful of women from the right to claim a free farm from the Dominion's public lands. This new reprint of Binnie-Clark's autobiographical writing includes an introduction by Susan Jackel, written for a 1979 edition of the text, as well as a new scholarly introduction by historian Sarah A. Carter, who received a Killam Fellowship for the study of Great Plains women of Canada and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWheat and Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating record of a gifted and determined woman's experience in prairie farming and a unique document in Canadian social history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225549361496,"sku":"9780802038135","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780802038135.jpg?v=1777039237","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/wheat-and-woman","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}