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This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and
reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national
boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the
reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France,
'German East Africa,' Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the
United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the
pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the
present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and
ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which
women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.
This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and
reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national
boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the
reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France,
'German East Africa,' Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the
United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the
pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the
present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and
ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which
women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.
The manufacturing of a chronic food crisisFood insecurity in the
North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human
rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis
Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this
crisis: state and corporate intervention in northern Indigenous
foodways. Despite claims to the contrary by governments, the
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), and the contemporary North West
Company (NWC), the exorbitant cost of food in the North is not a
naturally occurring phenomenon or the result of free-market forces.
Rather, inflated food prices are the direct result of government
policies and corporate monopolies. Using food as a lens to track
the institutional presence of the Canadian state in the North,
Burnett and Hay chart the social, economic, and political changes
that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s. They
explore the roles of state food policy and the HBC and NWC in
setting up, perpetuating, and profiting from food insecurity while
undermining Indigenous food sovereignties and self-determination.
Plundering the Northprovides fresh insight into Canada’s settler
colonial project, laying bare the processes behind the chronic food
insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities. An
important re-evaluation of northern food policies, this timely
contribution to scholarship on settler colonialism in Canada
enables better understandings of the ways the state and
corporations endanger the health and well-being of northern
Indigenous communities.
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays
bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and
respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The
essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views
on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the
understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask,
among other things, what are the limits of the law, of history, of
literature, and of education in understanding and representing
genocidal violence? What are the challenges we face in teaching and
learning about extreme events such as these, and how does the
language we use contribute to or impair what can be taught and
learned about genocide? Who gets to decide if it's genocide and who
its victims are? And how does the demonization of perpetrators of
atrocity prevent us from confronting the complicity of others, or
of ourselves? Through a multi-focused and multidisciplinary
investigation of these questions, Understanding Atrocities
demonstrates the vibrancy and breadth of the contemporary state of
genocide studies. With contributions by: Amarnath Amarasingam,
Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen,
Travis Hay, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah
Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Scott W. Murray, Christopher
Powell, and Raffi Sarkissian
When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights
advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess
the state of abortion in the country. In this volume, some of
Canada’s foremost researchers challenge current thinking about
abortion by revealing the discrepancy between what Canadians
believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision and what
people are experiencing on the ground. Showcasing new theoretical
frameworks and approaches from law, history, medicine, women’s
studies, and political science, these timely essays reveal the
diversity of abortion experiences across the country, past and
present, and make a case for shifting the debate from abortion
rights to reproductive justice.
The buffalo hunter, the medicine man, and the missionary continue
to dominate the history of the North American west, even though
historians have recognized women's role as both colonizer and
colonized since the 1980s. Kristin Burnett helps to correct this
imbalance by investigating the convergence of Aboriginal and
settler therapeutic regimes in southern Alberta from the
perspective of women. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine
men, women in Treaty 7 nations - Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu
T'ina, and Nakoda - played important roles as healers and
caregivers, and the knowledge and healing work of both Aboriginal
and settler women brought them into contact. As white settlement
increased and the colonial regime hardened, however, healing
encounters in domestic spaces gave way to more formal, one-sided
interactions in settler-run hospitals and nursing stations. Taking
Medicine presents colonial medicine and nursing as a gendered
phenomenon that had particular meanings for Aboriginal and settler
women who dealt with one another over bodily matters. By bringing
to light women's contributions to the development of health care in
southern Alberta between 1880 and 1930, this book challenges
traditional understandings of colonial medicine and nursing in the
contact zone.
Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue to dominate images
and narratives of the West, even though historians have recognized
women’s role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s. Kristin
Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by presenting colonial
medicine as a gendered phenomenon. Although the imperial eye
focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty 7 region
served as healers and caregivers – to their own people and to
settler society – until the advent of settler-run hospitals and
nursing stations. By revealing Aboriginal and settler women’s
contributions to health care, Taking Medicine challenges
traditional understandings of colonial medicine in the contact
zone.
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