Kristin Burnett

Taking Medicine

Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780774818292
• ISBN-10: 0774818298
• Artikelnr.: 33621533

Autorenporträt

Kristin Burnett is a member of the Department of History at Lakehead University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Niitsitapi: The Northwestern Plains
2 Setting the Stage: Engendering the Therapeutic Culture of the Siksika,
Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu T'ina, and Nakoda
3 Giving Birth: Women's Health Work and Western Settlement, 1850-1900
4 Converging Therapeutic Systems: Encounters between Aboriginal and
Non-Aboriginal Women, 1870s-90s
5 Laying the Foundation: The Work of Nurses, Nursing Sisters, and Female
Attendants on Reserves, 1890-1915
6 Taking over the System: Graduate Nurses, Nursing Sisters, Female
Attendants, and Indian Health Services, 1915-30
7 The Snake and the Butterfly: Midwifery and Birth Control, 1900s-30s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index