Finding a Way to the Heart

Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada

Robin Jarvis Brownlie (Editor), Valerie J. Korinek (Editor)

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.

About the Authors

Robin Jarvis Brownlie is an associate professor in the Department of History at University of Manitoba and author of A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918–1939.  

Valerie J. Korinek is a professor in the Department of History at University of Saskatchewan, and is the author of Roughing It in Suburbia: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. 

Other contributors: Jennifer S.H. Brown, Franca Iacovetta, Valerie J. Korinek, Elizabeth Jameson, Adele Perry, Angela Wanhalla, Robert Alexander Innes, Patricia A. McCormack, Robin Jarvis Brownlie, Victoria Freeman, Kathryn McPherson, Katrina Srigley

Book Details

  • Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada
  • Robin Jarvis Brownlie (Editor), Valerie J. Korinek (Editor)
  • Published April 2012, 280 pages
  • Paper, ISBN: 9780887557323, 6 × 9, $27.95
  • Topic(s): Aboriginal Studies, Women’s Studies

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