Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
Nonfiction, History, Americas, Canada, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
| Author: | Sarah Carter | ISBN: | 9781926836324 |
| Publisher: | Athabasca University Press | Publication: | January 1, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Athabasca University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sarah Carter |
| ISBN: | 9781926836324 |
| Publisher: | Athabasca University Press |
| Publication: | January 1, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Athabasca University Press |
| Language: | English |
Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentiethcentury Aboriginal women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individualsa trader a performer a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of womenwives midwives seamstresses nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women drawing on records generated by the women themselves including their beadwork other material culture and oral histories. Exploring the constraints and boundaries these women encountered the authors engage with difficult and important questions of gender race and identity. Collectively these essays demonstrate the complexity of "contact.
Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentiethcentury Aboriginal women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individualsa trader a performer a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of womenwives midwives seamstresses nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women drawing on records generated by the women themselves including their beadwork other material culture and oral histories. Exploring the constraints and boundaries these women encountered the authors engage with difficult and important questions of gender race and identity. Collectively these essays demonstrate the complexity of "contact.
