Contact zones : aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past
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Contact zones : aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past
UBC Press, c2005
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Contact zones : aboriginal & settler women in Canada's colonial past
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As both colonizer and colonized (sometimes even simultaneously), women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter - the so-called "contact zone" - between Aboriginals and newcomers. Aboriginal women shaped identities for themselves in both worlds. By recognizing the necessity to "perform," they enchanted and educated white audiences across Canada. On the other side of the coin, newcomers imposed increasing regulation on Aboriginal women's bodies. Contact Zones provides insight into the ubiquity and persistence of colonial discourse. What bodies belonged inside the nation, who were outsiders, and who transgressed the rules - these are the questions at the heart of this provocative book.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale
Part 1: Dressing and Performing Bodies: Aboriginal Women, Imperial Eyes, and Betweenness
1 Sewing for a Living: The Commodification of Metis Women's Artistic Production / Sherry Farrell Racette
2 Championing the Native: E. Pauline Johnson Rejects the Squaw / Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag
3 Performing for "Imperial Eyes": Bernice Loft and Ethel Brant Monture, Ontario, 1930s-60s / Cecilia Morgan
4 Spirited Subjects and Wounded Souls: Political Representations of an Im/moral Frontier / Jo-Anne Fiske
Part 2: Regulating the Body: Domesticity, Sexuality, and Transgression
5 Metropolitan Knowledge, Colonial Practice, and Indigenous Womanhood: Missions in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / Adele Perry
6 Creating "Semi-Widows" and "Supernumerary Wives": Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada's Aboriginal Communities to 1900 / Sarah A. Carter
7 Intimate Surveillance: Indian Affairs, Colonization, and the Regulation of Aboriginal Women's Sexuality / Robin Jarvis Brownlie
8 Domesticating Girls: The Sexual Regulation of Aboriginal and Working-Class Girls in Twentieth-Century Canada / Joan Sangster
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 Encounter / Jean Barman
10 "She Was a Ragged Little Thing": Missionaries, Embodiment, and Refashioning Aboriginal Womanhood in Northern Canada / Myra Rutherdale
11 Belonging - Out of Place: Women's Travelling Stories from the Western Edge / Dianne Newell
12 The Old and New on Parade: Mimesis, Queen Victoria, and Carnival Queens on Victoria Day in Interwar Victoria / Katie Pickles
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