Contact zones: Aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past

Abstract

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction / Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale Part 1. Dressing and Performing Bodies: Aboriginal Women, Eyes, and Betweenness 1. Sewing for a Living: The Commodification of Metis Women's Artistic Production / Sherry Farrell Racette 2. Championing the Native: E. Pauline Johnson Rejects the Squaw / Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag 3. Performing for Imperial Eyes: Bernice Loft and Ethel Brant Monture, Ontario, 1930s-60s / Cecilia Morgan 4. Spirited Subjects and Wounded Souls: Political Representations of an Im/moral Frontier / Jo-Anne Fiske Part 2. Regulating the Body: Domesticity, Sexuality, and Transgression 5. Metropolitan Knowledge, Colonial Practice, and Indigenous Womanhood: Missions in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / Adele Perry 6. Creating Semi-Widows and Supernumerary Wives: Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada's Aboriginal Communities to 1900 / Sarah A. Carter 7. Intimate Surveillance: Indian Affairs, Colonization, and the Regulation of Aboriginal Women's Sexuality / Robin Jarvis Brownlie 8. Domesticating Girls: The Sexual Regulation of Aboriginal and Working-Class Girls in Twentieth-Century Canada / Joan Sangster Part 3. Bodies in Everyday Space: Colonized and Colonizing Women in Canadian Contact Zones 9. Aboriginal Women on the Streets of Victoria: Rethinking Transgressive Sexuality during the Colonial Encounter / Jean Barman 10. She Was a Ragged Little Thing: Missionaries, Embodiment, and Refashioning Aboriginal Womanhood in Northern Canada / Myra Rutherdale 11. Belonging -- Out of Place: Women's Travelling Stories from the Western Edge / Dianne Newell 12. The Old and New on Parade: Mimesis, Queen Victoria, and Carnival Queens on Victoria Day in Interwar Victoria / Katie Pickles Contributors Index