"Max and her 'pard": the Rocking P gazette (1923-5) and the cultural production of settler girlhood in southern Alberta

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dc.contributor.authorFantin, Hanna E.
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorAlexander, Kristine
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-17T17:12:55Z
dc.date.available2025-07-17T17:12:55Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.description.abstractPublished between 1923-25 by teenage sisters Dorothy and Maxine Macleay, the Rocking P Gazette is a unique example of girl-made media. Comprising seventeen issues averaging eighty pages each, the Gazette documented daily life on the Macleay’s ranches, the Rocking P and Bar S. Its imaginative fiction and artwork draw inspiration from the girls’ interpersonal relationships and experiences growing up on a ranch, making it an invaluable source for the history of childhood and girlhood in early twentieth century western Canada. This thesis argues that (1) the Macleay girls engaged with, appropriated, and adapted adult-made media for their homemade magazine, which produced and reproduced settler-colonial silences and cowboy culture, and (2) that they challenged conventions of age and gender by expressing a class-based power over their audience of adult male ranch hands. Drawing examples from Dorothy and Maxine’s written and artistic work, this thesis aims to demonstrate how girls in rural 1920s Alberta could be active cultural producers.
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC-MA (2022)
dc.embargoNo
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/7071
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of History and Religion
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of History and Religion
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectRocking P Gazette
dc.subjectgirl-made media
dc.subjectdaily ranch life
dc.subjectearly 20th century girlhood
dc.subjecthomemade magazine
dc.subjectcowboy culture
dc.subjectrural Alberta
dc.subjectsettler girlhood
dc.subject.lcshDissertations, Academic
dc.subject.lcshRanch life--Alberta--Nanton--History--20th century
dc.subject.lcshRanch life--Alberta--Nanton--Anecdotes
dc.subject.lcshRanching--Alberta--Nanton--History
dc.subject.lcshRanching--Alberta--Nanton--Anecdotes
dc.subject.lcshAlberta--Social life and customs--20th century
dc.subject.lcshWomen ranchers--Alberta--Nanton--20th century
dc.subject.lcshRanches--Alberta--Nanton--History--20th century
dc.subject.lcshRocking P Ranch (Alta.)--History
dc.subject.lcshRocking P. Gazette--History and criticism
dc.subject.lcshStudent newspapers and magazines--Alberta, Southern
dc.subject.lcshSisters--Family relationships
dc.title"Max and her 'pard": the Rocking P gazette (1923-5) and the cultural production of settler girlhood in southern Alberta
dc.typeThesis
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