"When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of inquiry in women's, social, and Aboriginal history. Using Van Kirk's themes and methodologies as a jumping-off point, Finding a Way to the Heart examines race, gender, identity, and colonization from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and illustrates Van Kirk's extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship."--Publisher's website.
"In offering this volume of essays in honour of Sylvia Van Kirk's scholarship..."--P. 4.
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Contents
All these stories about women: many tender ties and a new fur trade history / Jennifer S.H. Brown -- Sylvia Van Kirk: a feminist appreciation of front-line work in the academy / Franca Iacovetta -- Daring to write a history of western Canadian women's experiences: assessing Sylvia Van Kirk's feminist scholarship -- Ties across the border / Elizabeth Jemeson -- Historiography that breaks your heart: Van Kirk and the writing of feminist history / Adele Perry -- Beyond the borders: the "founding families" of southern New Zealand / Angela Wanhalla -- Multicultural bands on the northern plains and the notion of "tribal" histories / Robert Alexander Innes -- "A world we have lost": the plural society of Fort Chipewyan / Patricia A McCormack -- Others or brothers?: competing settler and Anishinabe discourses about race in upper Canada / Robin Jarvis Brownlie -- Attitudes toward " miscegenation" in Canada, in United States, New Zealand, and Australia, 1860-1914 / Victoria Freeman -- Home tales: gender, domesticity and colonialism in the Prairie West, 1870-1900 / Kathryn McPherson -- "I am a proud Anishinaabekwe": issues of identity and status in northern Ontario after bill C-31/ Katrina Srigley.