Indigenous women and work : from labor to activism
Record details
- ISBN: 9780252078682 (pbk.)
-
Physical Description:
print
xiv, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Carol Williams -- Aboriginal women and work across the 49th parallel: historical antecedents and new challenges / Joan Sangster -- Making a living: Anishinaabe women in Michigan's changing economy / Alice Littlefield -- Procuring passage: southern Australian aboriginal women and the early Maritime industry of sealing / Lynette Russell -- The contours of agency: women's work, race, and Queensland's indenture labor trade / Tracey Banivanua Mar -- From "superabundance" to dependency: women agriculturalists and the negotiation of colonialism and capitalism for reservation-era Lummi / Chris Friday -- "We were real Skookum women": the shishalh economy and the logging industry on the Pacific northwest coast / Susan Roy and Ruth Taylor -- Unraveling the narratives of nostalgia: Navajo weavers and globalization / Kathy M'Closkey -- Labor and leisure in the "enchanted summer land": Anishinaabe women's work and the growth of Wisconsin tourism, 1900-1940 / Melissa Rohde -- Nimble fingers and strong backs: First Nations and Métis women in fur trade and rural economies / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Northfork Mono women's agricultural work, “productive coexistence," and social well-being in the San Joaquin Valley, California, circa 1850-1950 / Heather A. Howard -- Diverted mothering among American Indian domestic servants, 1920-1940 / Margaret D. Jacobs -- Charity or industry? American Indian women and work relief in the New Deal era / Colleen O'Neill -- "An Indian teacher among the Indians": Native women as federal employees / Cathleen D. Cahill --"Assaulting the ears of government": the Indian homemakers' clubs and the Maori Women's Welfare League in their formative years / Aroha Harris and Mary Jane Logan McCallum -- Politically purposeful work: Ojibwe women's labor and leadership in postwar Minneapolis / Brenda J. Child -- Maori sovereignty, black feminism, and the New Zealand trade union movement / Cybèle Locke -- Beading lesson / Beth H. Piatote. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Indigenous women -- Employment |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lansdowne Library | HQ 1381 I42 2012 (Text) | 26040003071434 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |