Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women : Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance / Amber Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Amber, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous women--Violence against--Social aspects--British Columbia--Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver).

Indigenous women.

Women--Violence against--Social aspects--British Columbia--Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver).

Women.

Missing persons--British Columbia--Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver)--Social conditions.

Missing persons.

Memorials--Social aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Memorials.

Collective memory--Social aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Collective memory.

Missing persons in art--Social aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Missing persons in art.

Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.).

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Contents:

Introduction: Inheriting what lives on

The present pasts of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Following ghosts : different knowings, knowing differently

Looking at images of Vancouver's disappeared women : troubling desires to "Humanize"

Shadowing the "Missing Women" story : "Squaw Men," whores, and other queer(ed) figures

Memory's difficult returns : memorializing Vancouver's disappeared women

Conclusion: Reckoning (for the present).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6085-6

1-4426-6084-8

OCLC:

948393221