Table of Contents

CoverTitle PageCopyright PageCONTENTSList of IllustrationsPreface Marlene Brant CastellanoAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Carol Williams1. Aboriginal Women and Work across the 49th Parallel: Historical Antecedents and New Challenges Joa2. Making a Living: Anishinaabe Women in Michigan's Changing Economy Alice Littlefield3. Procuring Passage: Southern Australian Aboriginal Women and the Early Maritime Industry of Sealin4. The Contours of Agency: Women's Work, Race, and Queensland's Indentured Labor Trade Tracey Baniva5. From "Superabundance" to Dependency: Women Agriculturalists and the Negotiation of Colonialism a-6. "We Were Real Skookum Women": The shishalh Economy and the Logging Industry on the Pacific Northw7. Unraveling the Narratives of Nostalgia: Navajo Weavers and Globalization Kathy M'Closkey8. Labor and Leisure in the "Enchanted Summer Land": Anishinaabe Women's Work and the Growth of Wisc9. Nimble Fingers and Strong Backs: First Nations and Métis Women in Fur Trade and Rural Economies S10. Northfork Mono Women's Agricultural Work, "Productive Coexistence," and Social Well-Being in tha11. Diverted Mothering among American Indian Domestic Servants, 1920-1940 Margaret D. Jacobs12. Charity or Industry? American Indian Women and Work Relief in the New Deal Era Colleen O'Neill13. "An Indian Teacher among Indians": Native Women As Federal Employees Cathleen D. Cahill14. "Assaulting the Ears of Government": The Indian Homemakers' Clubs and the Maori Women's Welfare15. Politically Purposeful Work: Ojibwe Women's Labor and Leadership in Postwar Minneapolis Brenda J16. Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement Cybèle Locke17. Beading Lesson Beth H. PiatoteContributorsIndex

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About the Author

Carol Williams is an associate professor of women and gender studies and history at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, and the author of Framing the West: Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest.

Reviews

"This intellectually engaging anthology compiles an excellent array of essays revolving around Indigenous women's relation to labor. The geographic range allows the reader to see the commonalities and differences between women's work experiences in these various national contexts." Renya K. Ramirez, co-editor of Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture