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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780537403321

Autore

Henderson Jennifer (Jennifer Anne)

Titolo

Settler feminism and race making in Canada / / Jennifer Henderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-4426-7981-6

1-282-02312-8

9786612023125

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

305.4/0971/0904

Soggetti

Women pioneers - Canada

Women and literature - Canada

Frontier and pioneer life in literature

Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Frontier and pioneer life - Canada

Women, White - Canada

Race relations in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Canada Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

'A magnificent and an enviable power': Governance of self and of others in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada -- Female freedom as an artefact of government: Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear -- Inducted feminism, inducing 'Personhood': Emily Murphy and race making in the Canadian West.

Sommario/riassunto

"Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada engages in a discursive analysis of three 'texts' - the narratives of Anna Jameson (Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada). Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney (Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear), and the 'Janey



Canuck' books of Emily Murphy - in order to examine how, in the context of a settler colony, white women have been part of the project of its governance, its racial constitution, and its role in British imperialism. Using Foucauldian theories of governmentality to connect these first-person narratives to wider strategies of race making, Jennifer Henderson develops a feminist critique of the ostensible freedom that Anglo-Protestant women found within nineteenth-century liberal projects of rule."--Jacket.