Amber Dean

Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women

Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance

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Produktbeschreibung

Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781442612754
• ISBN-10: 1442612754
• Artikelnr.: 42696078

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By Amber Dean

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Inheriting What Lives On
1. The Present Pasts of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
2. Following Ghosts: Different Knowings, Knowing Differently
3. Looking at Images of Vancouver’s Disappeared Women: Troubling Desires to
“Humanize”
4. Shadowing the “Missing Women” Story: “Squaw Men,” Whores, and other
Queer(ed) Figures
5. Memory’s Difficult Returns: Memorializing Vancouver’s Disappeared Women
Conclusion: Reckoning (for the Present)