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Contact zones : Aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past /

"Contact Zones" locates Canadian women's history within colonial and imperial systems. As both colonizer and colonized (sometimes simultaneously), women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter -- the so-called "contact zone" -- between Aboriginals and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pickles, Katie (Editor ), Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-2014 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale
  • Part 1. Dressing and performing bodies : Aboriginal women, imperial eyes, and betweenness ; Sewing for a living : the commodification of Métis women's artistic production / Sherry Farrell Racette
  • Championing the native : E. Pauline Johnson rejects the squaw / Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag
  • Performing for "imperial eyes" : Bernice Loft and Ethel Brant Monture, Ontario, 1930s-60s / Cecilia Morgan
  • Spirited subjects and wounded souls : political representations of an im/moral frontier / Jo-Anne Fiske
  • Part 2. Regulating the body : domesticity, sexuality, and transgression ; Metropolitan knowledge, colonial practice, and Indigenous womanhood : missions in nineteenth-century British Columbia / Adele Perry
  • Creating "semi-widows" and "supernumerary wives" : prohibiting polygamy in prairie Canada's Aboriginal communities to 1900 / Sarah A. Carter
  • Intimate surveillance : Indian Affairs, colonization, and the regulation of Aboriginal women's sexuality / Robin Jarvis Brownlie
  • Domesticating girls : the sexual regulation of Aboriginal and working-class girls in twentieth-century Canada / Joan Sangster
  • Part 3. Bodies in everyday space : colonized and colonizing women in Canadian contact zones ; Aboriginal women on the streets of Victoria : rethinking transgressive sexuality during the Colonial encounter / Jean Barman
  • "She was a ragged little thing" : missionaries, embodiment, and refashioning Aboriginal womanhood in Northern Canada / Myra Rutherdale
  • Belonging-out of place : women's travelling stories from the Western edge / Dianne Newell
  • The old and new on parade : mimesis, Queen Victoria, and carnival queens on Victoria Day in interwar Victoria / Katie Pickles.