Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women's History in Canada

by Jarvis Brownlie (Editor), Valerie J. Korinek (Editor)

Overview

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of inquiry in women’s, social, and Aboriginal history. Finding a Way to the Heart examines race, gender, identity, and colonization from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and illustrates Van Kirk’s extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887557323
Publisher:	University of Manitoba Press
Publication date:	04/15/2012
Edition description:	1
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jarvis Brownlie is an associate professor in the Department of History at University of Manitoba and author of A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918–1939.

Valerie J. Korinek is a professor in the Department of History at University of Saskatchewan, and is the author of Roughing It in Suburbia: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction 3

Works by Sylvia Van Kirk 22

"All These Stories About Women": "Many Tender Ties" and a New Fur Trade History Jennifer S.H. Brown 25

Sylvia Van Kirk: A Feminist Appreciation of Front-line Work in the Academy Franca Iacovetta 37

Daring to Write a History of Western Canadian Women's Experiences: Assessing Sylvia Van Kirk's Feminist Scholarship Valerie J. Korinek 49

Ties Across the Border Elizabeth Jameson 65

Historiography that Breaks Your Heart: Van Kirk and the Writing of Feminist History Adele Perry 81

Beyond the Borders: The "Founding Families" of Southern New Zealand Angela Wanhalla 98

Multicultural Bands on the Northern Plains and the Notion of "Tribal" Histories Robert Alexander Innes 122

"A World We Have Lost": The Plural Society of Fort Chipewyan Patricia A. Mccormack 146

Others or Brothers?: Competing Settler and Anishinabe Discourses about Race in Upper Canada Robin Jarvis Brownlie 170

Attitudes Toward "Miscegenation" in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, 1860-1914 Victoria Freeman 195

Home Tales: Gender, Domesticity, and Colonialism in the Prairie West, 1870-1900 Kathryn Mcpherson 222

"I am a proud Anishinaabekwe": Issues of Identity and Status in Northern Ontario after Bill C-31 Katrina Srigley 241

Contributors 267

Editorial Reviews

"A scholarly book that examines race, gender, identity and colonization from the early 19th century to the late 20th century and illustrates renowned Canadian scholar Sylvia Van Kirk's extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship and women's history."

Windspeaker - Christine McFarlane

"All of these essays are seminal works that have been deftly edited by the collaborative effort of academicians Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J. Korinek. The result is an informed and informative body of work that is a valued contribution to, and highly recommended for, academic library Canadian History, Ethnic Studies, and Women's Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists."

From the Publisher

An essential piece of work and a must-have book for every scholar, historian, educator and student of Aboriginal culture and contributions.

Alberta Native News - Ennis Morris