About Lesley Erickson Lesley Erickson holds a doctorate in history from the University of Calgary. Her research interests include women’s and gender history, western Canadian history, and the history of crime and punishment. Books by Lesley Erickson Westward Bound Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society by (author) Lesley Erickson Unsettled Pasts Reconceiving the West through Women's History contributions by Sarah Carter, Kristin Burnett, Christine Georgina Bye, Mary Leah De Zwart, Lesley A. Erickson, Cheryl Foggo, Nadine I. Kozak, Siri Louie, Graham A. Macdonald, Florence Melchior, Patricia A. Roome, Eliane Leslau Silverman, Olive Stickney, Aritha Van Herk, Muriel Stanley Venne & Cora J. Voyageur edited by Lesley Erickson, Patricia Roome & Char Smith