Bibliographies

Women, Wilderness and Wilder Places

From: "Pamela Banting" <pbanting@ucalgary.ca>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003

Here are a number of suggestions for texts for a course on "Women, Wilderness and Wilder Places."  Note that the books are not all about wilderness but also about some sparsely populated places like ranches in Wyoming and Saskathewan, etc.

Canadian:

Joan Barfoot, Abra

Marion Engel, Bear

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

Chris Czajkowski, Cabin at Singing River: Building a Home in the Wilderness or Diary of a Wilderness Dweller

Victoria Jason, Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak: One Woman's Journey Through the North West Passage

Susanna Moodie, The Journals of Susanna Moodie

Catherine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada

Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature or
one of her several novels

Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning

Julie Cruikshank in collaboration with Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned, Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders

Patricia Van Tighem, The Bear's Embrace: A True Story of Surviving a Grizzly
Bear Attack

Louise Bernice Halfe, Bear Bones and Feathers

Aritha Van Herk, Places Far from Ellesmere

Pearl Luke, Burning Ground

American:

Diane Ackermann, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

Kim Barnes, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country

Louise Erdrich, Tracks

---, Love Medicine

---, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

Mary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz

---, Bone Deep in Landscape: Writing, Reading and Place

Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces

---, A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning

Pam Houstan, Cowboys are My Weakness

Gretchen Legler, All the Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman's Notebook

Ellen Meloy, The Last Cheater's Waltz. Beauty and Violence in the Desert
Southwest

Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

---, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Brenda Peterson, Nature and Other Mothers: Personal Stories of Women and the Body of Earth

Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain

Teresa Jordan and James Hepworth, ed., The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West

Teresa Jordan, Riding the White Horse Home

Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Linda Hasselstrom, Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains