Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of Aboriginal women from the late-eighteenth century to the mid -twentieth century. They have often been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman - while others examine cohorts of women - wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record to and standard representations of women, drawing also on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and or...
ISBN(s)
1897425821, 9781897425824
