Indigenous Women, Work, and History: 1940-1980

ISBN-13: 9780887557385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str.

Mary Jane Logan McCallum

Opis

When dealing with Indigenous women s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their twentieth century experiences reduced to a singular story of decline and loss. "Indigenous Women, Work, and History "rejects both of these long-standing conventions by presenting case studies of Indigenous domestic servants, hairdressers, community health representatives, and nurses working in modern Native ways. By placing the history of these modern workers within a broader historical context McCallum challenges us to think about Indigenous women s history in entirely new ways."