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Indigenous Women, Work, and History - 1940-1980 (Paperback)
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History - 1940-1980 (Paperback)
Series: Critical Studies in Native History
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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. In Indigenous
Women, Work, and History, historian Mary Jane Logan McCallum
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"
between 1940 and 1980. Based on a range of sources, including the
records of the Departments of Indian Affairs and National Health
and Welfare, interviews, and print and audio-visual media, McCallum
shows how state-run education and placement programs were part of
Canada's larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty
obligations. Conversely, she also shows how Indigenous women link
these same programs to their social and cultural responsibilities
of community building and state resistance. By placing the history
of these modern workers within a broader historical context of
Aboriginal education and health, federal labour programs, post-war
Aboriginal economic and political developments, and Aboriginal
professional organizations, McCallum challenges us to think about
Indigenous women's history in entirely new ways.
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