Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

Nonfiction, History, Americas, Canada, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
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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.

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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.

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