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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450229803321

Titolo

Contact zones [[electronic resource] ] : Aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past / / edited by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-74077-6

9786612740770

0-7748-5168-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RutherdaleMyra <1961->

PicklesKatie

Disciplina

305.48/897071/09034

305.4/0971/09034

Soggetti

Indian women - Canada - Social conditions - 19th century

Indian women - Canada - Social conditions - 20th century

Women pioneers - Canada - Social conditions - 19th century

Women pioneers - Canada - Social conditions - 20th century

Indiennes d'Amérique - Canada - Conditions sociales - 19e siècle

Indiennes d'Amérique - Canada - Conditions sociales - 20e siècle

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Dressing and Performing Bodies: Aboriginal Women, Imperial Eyes, and Betweenness; 1 Sewing for a Living: The Commodification of Métis Women's Artistic Production; 2 Championing the Native: E. Pauline Johnson Rejects the Squaw; 3 Performing for "Imperial Eyes": Bernice Loft and Ethel Brant Monture, Ontario, 1930s-60s; 4 Spirited Subjects and Wounded Souls: Political Representations of an Im/moral Frontier; Part 2: Regulating the Body: Domesticity, Sexuality, and Transgression

5 Metropolitan Knowledge, Colonial Practice, and Indigenous Womanhood: Missions in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia6 Creating "Semi-Widows" and "Supernumerary Wives": Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada's Aboriginal Communities to 1900; 7



Intimate Surveillance: Indian Affairs, Colonization, and the Regulation of Aboriginal Women's Sexuality; 8 Domesticating Girls: The Sexual Regulation of Aboriginal and Working-Class Girls in Twentieth-Century Canada; Part 3: Bodies in Everyday Space: Colonized and Colonizing Women in Canadian Contact Zones

9 Aboriginal Women on the Streets of Victoria: Rethinking Transgressive Sexuality during the Colonial Encounter10 "She Was a Ragged Little Thing": Missionaries, Embodiment, and Refashioning Aboriginal Womanhood in Northern Canada; 11 Belonging - Out of Place: Women's Travelling Stories from the Western Edge; 12 The Old and New on Parade: Mimesis, Queen Victoria, and Carnival Queens on Victoria Day in Interwar Victoria; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y