Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance
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Pamela J. Downe
Description
Looks at the impact of mother blame and stigmatization on Aboriginal women who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and injection drug use. Includes experiences of three women author encountered while working with AIDS Saskatoon.
Entire book on one pdf. To read this chapter scroll to p. 103.
Chapter from Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance edited by Michelle Hughes Miller, Tamar Hager, and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 26, no. 1, White Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in the Canadian Context: A Tribute to Patricia Monture, 2014, pp. i-iii
Description
Introduces the articles in this specially themed issue.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 46, November 20, 2017, pp. e1408-e1409
Description
Highlights Saskatoon Health Region's external review into allegations of Indigenous women being coerced into having tubal ligations, and the interim report on the death of Brian Sinclair, who was ignored for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 189, no. 33, August 21, 2017, pp. e1080-1081
Description
Talks about the report, Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women that confirmed allegations against the Saskatoon Health Region.
Presents results of six weeks of fact-finding conducted from January to July 2016, interviews and correspondence with police, and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.