Ebook: Indigenous Women, Work, and History 1940-1980
Author: McCallum Mary Jane Logan
- Tags: Economic history, Indian women--Employment, Indian women--Employment--Canada--History--20th century, Indigenous women--Employment--Canada--History--20th century, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies, Case studies, Electronic books, History, Indian women -- Employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies, Indigenous women -- Employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies, Canada -- Economic conditions -- 1945-, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Di
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
- City: Canada
- Language: English
- epub
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...