Recollecting

Recollecting Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands - The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies

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Publisher's Synopsis

Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West.Some essays focus on individuals - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women - wives, 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 zone" interactions, and they enrich and challenge dominant narratives about histories of the Canadian Northwest.

Book information

ISBN: 9781897425824
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Imprint: AU Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 934g
Height: 247mm
Width: 172mm
Spine width: 36mm