Title Contact zones : Aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past / edited by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale

Published Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations, map, black and white photographs Contents Introduction / Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale -- Part 1. Dressing and performing bodies : Aboriginal women, imperial eyes, and betweenness ; Sewing for a living : the commodification of Métis women's artistic production / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Championing the native : E. Pauline Johnson rejects the squaw / Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag -- Performing for "imperial eyes" : Bernice Loft and Ethel Brant Monture, Ontario, 1930s-60s / Cecilia Morgan -- Spirited subjects and wounded souls : political representations of an im/moral frontier / Jo-Anne Fiske -- Part 2. Regulating the body : domesticity, sexuality, and transgression ; Metropolitan knowledge, colonial practice, and Indigenous womanhood : missions in nineteenth-century British Columbia / Adele Perry -- Creating "semi-widows" and "supernumerary wives" : prohibiting polygamy in prairie Canada's Aboriginal communities to 1900 / Sarah A. Carter -- Intimate surveillance : Indian Affairs, colonization, and the regulation of Aboriginal women's sexuality / Robin Jarvis Brownlie -- Domesticating girls : the sexual regulation of Aboriginal and working-class girls in twentieth-century Canada / Joan Sangster -- Part 3. Bodies in everyday space : colonized and colonizing women in Canadian contact zones ; Aboriginal women on the streets of Victoria : rethinking transgressive sexuality during the Colonial encounter / Jean Barman -- "She was a ragged little thing" : missionaries, embodiment, and refashioning Aboriginal womanhood in Northern Canada / Myra Rutherdale -- Belonging-out of place : women's travelling stories from the Western edge / Dianne Newell -- The old and new on parade : mimesis, Queen Victoria, and carnival queens on Victoria Day in interwar Victoria / Katie Pickles Summary "Contact Zones" locates Canadian women's history within colonial and imperial systems. As both colonizer and colonized (sometimes simultaneously), women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter -- the so-called "contact zone" -- between Aboriginals and newcomers. Some women were able to transgress the bounds of social expectation, while others reluctantly conformed to them. Aboriginal women such as E. Pauline Johnson, Bernice Loft, and Ethel Brant Monture shaped identities for themselves in both worlds. By recognizing the necessity to "perform," they enchanted and educated white audiences across Canada. On the other side of the coin, newcomers imposed increasing regulation on Aboriginal women's bodies. Aboriginal women were expected to consent to moral, sexual, and marital rules that white women were already beginning to contest. This volume draws upon a vast array of primary sources to provide insight into the ubiquity and persistence of colonial discourse, and to demonstrate how it ultimately was an embodied experience. Above all, it shows how the colonial enterprise was about embodied contacts. What bodies belonged inside the nation, who were outsiders, and who transgressed the rules--these are the questions at the heart of this provocative book Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 Indian women -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Indian women -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Women pioneers -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Women pioneers -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Women pioneers Indian women Indian women -- Social conditions Women pioneers -- Social conditions Canada Genre/Form Instructional and educational works History Instructional and educational works. Matériel d'éducation et de formation. Form Electronic book Author Pickles, Katie. editor. Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-2014, editor. ISBN 9780774851688 0774851686

Other Titles Aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past

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