- October 3, 2014
Featuring a discussion and reading from Indigenous Women, Work, and History.
When: Friday, October 3, 1:00 pm
Where: Gaynor Family Library (806 Manitoba Ave, Selkirk MB)
Cost: FREE
Mary Jane will be presenting to the Gaynor Family Library’s seniors’ program headed by author and historian Donna Sutherland.
About the Book
When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their twentieth century experiences reduced to a singular story of decline and loss. In Indigenous Women, Work, and History, historian Mary Jane Logan McCallum rejects both of these long-standing conventions by presenting case studies of Indigenous domestic servants, hairdressers, community health representatives, and nurses working in “modern Native ways” between 1940 and 1980.
By placing the history of these modern workers within a broader historical context of Aboriginal education and health, federal labour programs, post-war Aboriginal economic and political developments, and Aboriginal professional organizations, McCallum challenges us to think about Indigenous women’s history in entirely new ways.
Mary Jane Logan McCallum is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at University of Winnipeg.
