Changing lives : women in Northern Ontario /

This book provides a glimpse of Aboriginal women in Northern Ontario and it reflects primarily the impact of the European churches and systems on Aboriginal peoples' way of life. The words of the Aboriginal women are gentle, but these words convey the displacement of their way of life in the mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kechnie, Margaret, Reitsma-Street, Marge
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1996.
Temas:
Women > Ontario, Northern > Social conditions.
Indian women > Ontario, Northern > Social conditions.
Minority women > Ontario, Northern > Social conditions.
Femmes > Ontario (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Ontario (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
Femmes issues des minorités > Ontario (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Indian women > Social conditions.
Minority women > Social conditions.
Women > Social conditions.
Northern Ontario.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Voices of Five Women
  • Poems by Valerie Senyk
  • Dead Letter (Barbaraâ#x80;#x99;s Voice)
  • Making Pictures (Jeanetteâ#x80;#x99;s Voice)
  • When Push Comes to Shove (Marielleâ#x80;#x99;s Voice)
  • When Feathers Fly (Ginaâ#x80;#x99;s Voice)
  • Mining (Joyâ#x80;#x99;s Voice)
  • Part One: Understanding Diversity
  • 1 A Census of Northern Ontario Women
  • 2 Nokomis and the Changing Times in Her Life: Interview with a Woman Elder
  • 3 Women of Quiet Strength: Nishnaabe-kwek Mothers and Daughters
  • 4 Ukrainian Women in the Sudbury Region5 Traditions/Transitions/Translation: Hispanic Women in a Northern Community
  • 6 The Experiences of Black Women Across Northern Ontario
  • 7 Invisible Lives, Visible Strength: Stories of Northern Ontario Lesbians
  • Part Two: The Worlds of Work
  • 8 Finnish Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Experience in Northern Ontario Lumber Camps, 1920â#x80;#x93;1939
  • 9 Elva Sullivan, a Teacher in Northern Ontario, 1931â#x80;#x93;1939
  • 10 â#x80;#x9C;Every Miner Had a Motherâ#x80;#x9D;
  • 11 Working at Inco: Women in a Downsizing Male Industry
  • 12 Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Work is (Almost) Never Done ... (By Anyone Else)13 Successful Women Entrepreneurs in Northeastern Ontario
  • 14 First Nations Community Economic Corporation
  • 15 â#x80;#x9C;Who Do You Think Did the Cooking?â#x80;#x9D; Baba in the Classroom
  • Part Three: Daily Stresses
  • 16 â#x80;#x9C;You Never Give Up Worryingâ#x80;#x9D;: The Consequences of a Hazardous Mine Environment for Working-Class Families in Timmins, 1915â#x80;#x93;1950
  • 17 Women and Poverty in Northern Ontario
  • 18 La pauvreté des Franco-Ontariennes de 45 à 64 ans du Nort he 1â#x80;#x99;Ontario
  • 19 A Study of Violence and Isolation Experiences of Northern Women20 Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Health in Northern Ontario: An Introductory Geographical Appraisal
  • 21 Health Issues for Women in Northeastern Ontario
  • Part Four: Sources of Change
  • 22 The Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Institutes in Northern Ontario, 1905â#x80;#x93;1930: Imitators or Innovators?
  • 23 The Northeastern Ontario Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Conference 1981â#x80;#x93;1984: A Conversation on Learning to Act
  • 24 Northern Ontario Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Centres: Women of Vision, Women on Learningt
  • 25 Getting it Together: Women and Co-operative Housing in Northern Ontario
  • 26 Le Collectif â#x80;#x93; un médium pour ameliorer la condition des femmes francophones27 Women and Distance Education in Northeastern Ontario
  • 28 Women in Science at a Northern Ontario University: A 35-year Perspective
  • 29 Young Women and Feminism in Northern Ontario
  • Notes

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