Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout and Eric Guimond, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie, editor.

Stout, Madeleine Dion, editor.

Guimond, Éric, editor.

Gibson Library Connections, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous women--Social conditions.

Canada.

Genre:

History

Biographies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 379 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Restoring the Balance combines elements of First Nations traditions and mainstream feminism to produce an outstanding collection of historical and critical accounts of the impacts Aboriginal women have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, art, and cultural retention. Fifteen scholars, activists and community leaders illuminate long-standing gender imbalances within the oral and written historical records that have limited the self-actualization of First Nations women, and offer insight into the tangible work that Aboriginal women perform in community and cultural development." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and, Eric Guimond

Trauma to resilience: notes on decolonization / Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux

Contributions that count: first nations women and demography / Cleo Big Eagle and Eric Guimond

First nations women's contributions to culture and community through Canadian law / Yvonne Boyer

Leading by action: female chiefs and the political landscape / Kim Anderson

Creating an indigenous intellectual movement at Canadian universities: the stories of five first nations female academics / Jo-Ann Archibald

Reflections on cultural continuity though aboriginal women's writings / Emma LaRocque

Sisters in spirit / Anita Olsen Harper

Heart of the nations: women's contribution to community healing / Marlene Brant Castellano

A relational approach to cultural competence / Gaye Hanson

A culture of art: profiles of contemporary first nations women artists / Viviane Gray

Looking for stories and unbroken threads: museum artifacts as women's history and cultural legacy / Sherry Farell Racette

The role of first nations women in language continuity and transition / Mary Jane Norris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-379).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version (bound): Restoring the balance.

Print version (paperback): Restoring the balance.

ISBN:

9780887553615

0887553613

9780887554124

0887554121

1283091097

9781283091091

9786613091093

661309109X

0887557090

9780887557095

OCLC:

759156855