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The Rock Where We Stand : An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropological Horizons SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442679443
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Rock Where We StandLOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.C2 G467 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Between Home and Field: Feminist Activism at the Grass Roots -- 2 Gender, Ethnicity, and Labour before and after the 'Carefree Years' -- 3 Re-creating Home: The Local Construction of Feminist Practice -- 4 Contextualizing Dependency: Single Mothers and Feminist Politics -- 5 Sexual Abuse and Violence: Contested Meanings and the Politics of Narrative -- 6 Grass-roots Activism and Feminist Politics -- 7 Rethinking Community: Feminist Activism and Sustained Settlement -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence, and examines the interplay of feminist and Newfoundland identification among these individuals.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Between Home and Field: Feminist Activism at the Grass Roots -- 2 Gender, Ethnicity, and Labour before and after the 'Carefree Years' -- 3 Re-creating Home: The Local Construction of Feminist Practice -- 4 Contextualizing Dependency: Single Mothers and Feminist Politics -- 5 Sexual Abuse and Violence: Contested Meanings and the Politics of Narrative -- 6 Grass-roots Activism and Feminist Politics -- 7 Rethinking Community: Feminist Activism and Sustained Settlement -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence, and examines the interplay of feminist and Newfoundland identification among these individuals.

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