Contact Zones : Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past.
Rutherdale, Myra.
Contact Zones : Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Intro -- 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 Columbia -- 6 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 Encounter -- 10 "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.
This provocative book examines how women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter - the so-called "contact zone" - between Aboriginals and newcomers.
9780774851688
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.
E78.C2 -- C615 2005eb
305.4/0971/09034;305.48/897071/09034
Contact Zones : Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Intro -- 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 Columbia -- 6 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 Encounter -- 10 "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.
This provocative book examines how women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter - the so-called "contact zone" - between Aboriginals and newcomers.
9780774851688
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.
E78.C2 -- C615 2005eb
305.4/0971/09034;305.48/897071/09034