The Iconic North explores how the "modern" South crafted cultural images of a "primitive" North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.
The Iconic North explores how the "modern" South crafted cultural images of a "primitive" North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.
Joan Sangster is a historian who teaches gender and women's studies at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has held visiting fellowships at McGill, Duke, and Princeton universities. She is the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada; Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada; Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law, Ontario 1920-60; Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-1960; and Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-60. A retrospective collection of her essays, Through Feminist Eyes: Essays in Canadian Women's History, was published in 2012.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1 Narrating the North: Sojourning Women and Travel Writing 2 The Beaver: Northern Indigenous Life in Popular Education 3 North of Schamattawa: "Indians," "Eskimos," and RCMP 4 NFB Documentary, Indigenous Peoples, and Canadian Northern Policy 5 Irene Baird's Northern Journeys 6 "Mrs. Bird Flies North": The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in the North Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
Introduction 1 Narrating the North: Sojourning Women and Travel Writing 2 The Beaver: Northern Indigenous Life in Popular Education 3 North of Schamattawa: "Indians," "Eskimos," and RCMP 4 NFB Documentary, Indigenous Peoples, and Canadian Northern Policy 5 Irene Baird's Northern Journeys 6 "Mrs. Bird Flies North": The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in the North Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
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