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An act of genocide : colonialism and the sterilization of Aboriginal women / Karen Stote.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stote, Karen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian women--Health and hygiene--Canada.
- Indian women.
- Indian women--Canada--Social conditions.
- Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--Canada.
- Involuntary sterilization.
- Involuntary sterilization--Government policy--Canada.
- Eugenics--Government policy--Canada.
- Eugenics.
- Sterilization (Birth control)--Government policy.
- Sterilization (Birth control)--Law and legislation.
- Eugenics--Government policy.
- Involuntary sterilization--Government policy.
- Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation.
- Social conditions.
- Indian women--Health and hygiene.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1 Eugenics, Feminism and the Woman Question 10
- The Birth of an Idea 11
- Eugenics in Canada 14
- Eugenics and the Woman Question 19
- Eugenic Feminism: Maternal Feminists, Suffragettes and "Other" Women 21
- 2 Indian Policy and Aboriginal Women 28
- Historical Context and the Indian Act 30
- Indian Policy and Health 35
- Indian Policy, Sexuality and Motherhood 40
- 3 Sterilization, Birth Control and Abusive Abortions 46
- Controlling Births with Birth Control 60
- To Sell, Advertise and Distribute Openly 67
- Sterilization and Birth Control in the North 70
- Sterilization by Number 78
- The End of the Line 91
- 4 Settling the Past 101
- Settling the Past: Courts, Cash and Compensation? 106
- After the Act: British Columbia 111
- Compensation and Aboriginal Women 116
- 5 Canada, Genocide and Aboriginal Peoples 127
- Raphaël Lemkin and the Crime Without a Name 129
- From Draft to Convention: A Compromise with Consequences 131
- Canada and the Genocide Convention 139
- Genocide and the Canadian Criminal Code 140
- Canada and the International Criminal Court 150
- Genocide and Aboriginal Peoples Today 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- Other Format:
- Stote, Karen, 1980-, author. Act of genocide.
- ISBN:
- 1552667324
- 9781552667323
- OCLC:
- 901996864
- Publisher Number:
- 99963169989
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