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Looking Back: Canadian Women's University of Calgary PRISM: University of Calgary's Digital Repository University of Calgary Press University of Calgary Press Open Access Books 2010 Looking back: Canadian women’s prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity Matthews, S. Leigh University of Calgary Press Matthews, S. Leigh. "Looking back: Canadian women’s prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity". Series: The West series; 1, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1880/48921 book http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported Downloaded from PRISM: https://prism.ucalgary.ca University of Calgary Press www.uofcpress.com LOOKING BACK: CANADIAN WOMEN’S PRAIRIE MEMOIRS AND INTERSECTIONS OF CULTURE, HISTORY, AND IDENTITY by S. Leigh Matthews ISBN 978-1-55238-595-1 THIS BOOK IS AN OPEN ACCESS E-BOOK. 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