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Indigenous Women and Work
Carol . Ed(S): Williams
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Description for Indigenous Women and Work
Paperback. The working lives of Indigenous women Editor(s): Williams, Carol. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 512.
The essays in Indigenous Women and Work create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late nineteenth century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada. Surveying the spectrum of Indigenous women's lives and circumstances as workers, both waged and unwaged, the contributors offer varied perspectives on the ways women's work has contributed to the survival of communities in the face of ongoing tensions between assimilation and colonization. They also interpret how individual nations have conceived of Indigenous women as workers and, ... Read more
The essays in Indigenous Women and Work create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late nineteenth century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada. Surveying the spectrum of Indigenous women's lives and circumstances as workers, both waged and unwaged, the contributors offer varied perspectives on the ways women's work has contributed to the survival of communities in the face of ongoing tensions between assimilation and colonization. They also interpret how individual nations have conceived of Indigenous women as workers and, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078682
SKU
V9780252078682
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Carol . Ed(S): Williams
Carol Williams is an associate professor of women and gender studies and history at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, and the author of Framing the West: Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest.
Reviews for Indigenous Women and Work
A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013.— A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013.