Indigenous women and work : from labor to activism / edited by Carol Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Carol, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous women--Employment.

Indigenous women.

Women--Economic conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late 19th century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""CONTENTS""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface Marlene Brant Castellano""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction Carol Williams""; ""1. Aboriginal Women and Work across the 49th Parallel: Historical Antecedents and New Challenges Joa""; ""2. Making a Living: Anishinaabe Women in Michigan's Changing Economy Alice Littlefield""; ""3. Procuring Passage: Southern Australian Aboriginal Women and the Early Maritime Industry of Sealin""; ""4. The Contours of Agency: Women's Work, Race, and Queensland's Indentured Labor Trade Tracey Baniva""

""10. Northfork Mono Women's Agricultural Work, ""Productive Coexistence,"" and Social Well-Being in tha""""11. Diverted Mothering among American Indian Domestic Servants, 1920-1940 Margaret D. Jacobs""; ""12. Charity or Industry? American Indian Women and Work Relief in the New Deal Era Colleen O'Neill""; ""13. ""An Indian Teacher among Indians"": Native Women As Federal Employees Cathleen D. Cahill""; ""14. ""Assaulting the Ears of Government"": The Indian Homemakers' Clubs and the Maori Women's Welfare ""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-71263-6

0-252-09426-3

OCLC:

817540242