The Iconic North

Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada

Joan Sangster (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2016
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774831833 (ISBN)

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The Iconic North explores how the "modern" South crafted cultural images of a "primitive" North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.

Recent archaeological discoveries in the polar region have reanimated stock images of the intrepid explorer who braves the elements to bring modernity to a frigid northern wasteland. The Iconic North reveals that ideological assumptions, economic priorities, and a shift in government strategy in the postwar era all influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. Whether it was film, television, or women's autobiographies, the "primitive" North was often portrayed as the mirror opposite to the "modern" South.

In crisp and elegant prose, Joan Sangster redirects current debates about the geopolitical prospects of the North by addressing how women and gender relations have played a key role in the history of northern development.Drawing on archival and cultural sources, Sangster shows how gender, race, and colonialism shape our understanding of northern peoples, economies, and government policy. This work reveals how assumptions about both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women shaped gender, class, and political relationships in the circumpolar north – a region now commanding more of the world's attention.

Joan Sangster is a historian who teaches gender and women's studies at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has held visiting fellowships at McGill, Duke, and Princeton universities. She is the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada; Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada; Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law, Ontario 1920–60; Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920–1960; and Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920–60. A retrospective collection of her essays, Through Feminist Eyes: Essays in Canadian Women's History, was published in 2012.

Introduction

1 Narrating the North: Sojourning Women and Travel Writing

2 The Beaver: Northern Indigenous Life in Popular Education

3 North of Schamattawa: "Indians," "Eskimos," and RCMP

4 NFB Documentary, Indigenous Peoples, and Canadian Northern Policy

5 Irene Baird's Northern Journeys

6 "Mrs. Bird Flies North": The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in the North

Conclusion

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2016
Zusatzinfo	18 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	710 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780774831833 / 9780774831833
Zustand	Neuware