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Around the Kitchen Table

Métis Aunties' Scholarship

Laura Forsythe (Editor), Jennifer Markides (Editor)

Looking beyond the patriarchy to document and celebrate the scholarship of Métis women, Around the Kitchen Table brings together writing by new and established scholars, artists, storytellers, and community leaders that reflects the diversity of research created by Métis women as it is lived, conceptualized, and re-imagined.

Dammed

The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory

Brittany Luby (Author)

Dammed explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River.

Compelled to Act

Histories of Women's Activism in Western Canada 

Sarah Carter (Editor), Nanci Langford (Editor)

Compelled to Act showcases fresh historical perspectives on the diversity of women’s contributions to social and political change in prairie Canada in the 20th century, including but looking beyond the era of suffrage activism.

Detroit's Hidden Channels

The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century

Karen L. Marrero (Author)

A study of the integral role of early French and Indigenous kinship networks in Detroit’s development as a site of singular political and economic importance in the continental interior.

In Good Relation

History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms

Sarah Nickel (Editor), Amanda Fehr (Editor)

Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Organized around the notion of “generations,” this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience.

Implicating the System

Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women

Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick (Author)

Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons. Implicating the System demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of colonization.

No Man's Land

The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton, 1868-1954

Kathryn A. Young (Author), Sarah M. McKinnon (Author)

The life story of artist Mary Riter Hamilton (1868-1954) is one of tragedy and adventure, from homestead beginnings, to genteel drawing rooms in Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver, to Berlin and Parisian art schools, to Vimy and Ypres, and finally to illness and poverty. No Man’s Land is the first biographical study of Hamilton.

Imperial Plots

Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

Sarah Carter (Author)

Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Edge of the Woods

Iroquoia: 1534-1701

Jon Parmenter (Author)

A re-examination of the relationship between mobility and Iroquois power in the pre-contact era.

Mary Jane Logan McCallum (Author)

A modern history of Indigenous labour in the Canadian workforce.

Finding a Way to the Heart

Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women's History in Canada

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

Finding a Way to the Heart examines race, gender, identity, and colonization from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and illustrates Sylvia Van Kirk’s extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship.

Life Stages and Native Women

Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

Kim Anderson (Author), Maria Campbell (Foreword)

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Indigenous women and their communities.

Restoring the Balance

First Nations Women, Community, and Culture

Gail Guthrie Valaskakis (Editor), Eric Guimond (Editor), Madeleine Dion Stout (Editor)

Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists, and community leaders, Restoring the Balance combines life histories and biographical accounts with historical and critical analyses grounded in traditional thought and approaches. It is a powerful and important book.

Marlene Epp (Author)

Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years.

A Great Restlessness

The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen

Faith Johnston (Author)

Making Ends Meet

Farm Women's Work in Manitoba

Charlotte van de Vorst (Author)

In Her Own Voice

Childbirth Stories from Mennonite Women

Katherine Martens (Editor), Heidi Harms (Editor)

Kirsten Wolf (Translator)

This collection of short stories and poems spans 75 years of writings. From the hopefulness of the early immigration in the 1870s to the conflict of assimilation in the 1950s, the pieces reflect a range of experiences common to immigrant women from many cultures.