Research Catalog

Title

"Gossip" : a spoken history of women in the North / edited by Mary Crnkovich.

Publication

Ottawa, Ont. : Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, ©1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crnkovich, Mary.
• Canadian Arctic Resources Committee.

Description

xxi, 289 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

A collection of oral histories and interviews with women in northern Canada, including Indian, Inuit, Metis and non-native women, illustrating their traditional and contemporary place in society. Some chapters are translations from the narrator's language.

Subject

• Women > Canada, Northern > Social conditions
• Women > Canada, Northern > History
• Women > Canada, Northern
• Women
• Women > Social conditions
• Vrouwen
• Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap)
• Femmes > Canada (nord)
• Femmes > Canada (nord) > Histoire
• Northern Canada

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Chapter 1 -- Changing role of women and their families -- A good life / Okalik, Annie -- In our opinion / Hill, Alice -- "Boy, have things changed" / Pudlat, Maata -- Between two cultures / Manomie, Suzanne -- Women loving women -- northern style / Fallding, Helen -- The feminist conservative / Crawford, Anne -- Women of the Kitaq -- Guided by our bellies / Brooks, Lynn -- New choices for a new era / Billson, Janet Mancini -- Changing women in the north / Graeme, Toni -- Traditional practices in a contemporary family / Thomas, Mary Ellen -- Chapter II. Midwifery and birthing -- The family centred maternity care project / Paulette, Lesley -- PCB's in Inuit women's breast milk / Lowell, JoAnn -- Rights of passage in the north: from evacuation to the birth of a culture / Daviss-Putt, Betty Anne -- Marie Kilunik (Dogs barking) -- Chapter III. Violence, women and the community -- Band-aid solutions for family violence / Sammons, Susan -- Tawow society reaches out to families in need / Sutherland, M. Agnes -- Survival and help: two plays about taking action on spousal abuse / Tununiq Theatre -- Violence towards women and children / Billson, Janet Mancini -- A beaten woman / Anonymous -- Chapter IV. Women in the workplace -- Dene women and work / Nahanni, Phoebe -- Nindal Kwanindur / Adam-MacLellan, Barb -- "Flexible is an understatement" / Dobson, Debby -- Nursing in the north: challenges and isolation / Canitz, Brenda -- Summary of arts and crafts: women and their work / Irving, Kate -- Chapter V. -- Rethinking power and politics -- Women and politics -- a talk with three Greenlandic women / Thomsen, Marianne Lykke -- Visions of women: partners for change / Kataujuk Society -- Inuit women in Greenland and Canada: awareness an and involvement in political development / Thomsen, Marianne Lykke -- Hay River women's centre / Whyte, Jodi -- Mary Simon: walking in two worlds but in one spirit / Stenbaek, Marianne -- The Spence Bay women / Tokolik, Sarah -- Women in politics in the north: an interview with Caroline Anawak / Illnik, Karen.

ISBN

• 0919996442
• 9780919996441

LCCN

90186628

OCLC

• ocm23147671
• 23147671
• SCSB-1895871

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library