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Description: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 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands. To get started finding Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 433

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Au Press

Release: 2011

ISBN: 189742583X

Description: 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 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands. To get started finding Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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