Gender Roles

Book review of: Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven. Review located by scrolling to page 262.

Looks at Aboriginal athletes challenging the unofficial code of Australian male culture.

Discusses early anthropological misconceptions about Blackfeet women and the construction and maintenance of the tipi.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 2000.

Book review of: Wynema: A Child of the Forest by S. Alice Callahan.

Powwow dancer, Boye Ladd, relates traditional teachings on various topics relating to First Nations culture, including information about the sacred drum, respect for other people and groups, and the right to wear an eagle feather.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.29.

Book review of: Brothers Born of One Mother by Michelle LeMaster. Review located by scrolling to page 200.

Studies gender roles in three novels: Not Wanted on the Voyage, Salt Fish Girl, and Kiss of the Fur Queen. English & Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2014.

Looks at the normalizing subjectivities of dominate groups and the resulting identity issues such as invisibility and isolation, as well as ways to overcome these forms of adversity. Accompanying interview. Accompanying presentation.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2012.

Gender Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2016.

Verifies the social and economic impoverishment of urban Aboriginal women, especially female lone parents, and the increasing poverty of women in metropolitan Toronto.

Book review of: Capturing Women by Sarah Carter.

Overview of the quality of water in Aboriginal communities and interviews Grandmothers about the nature of water, its meaning and the importance of water to Aboriginal women.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2005.

Commentary on the struggle of Navajo women to reclaim their rightful place in society, including politics.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 1990.

Comments on traditional and contemporary sex roles of Native American women and the strength that arises when both are brought together.

Discusses how female Native American authors are starting to change Euro-American perceptions.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2004.

Explains the learning of sex roles, for men the way of bravery, fortitude, generosity and wisdom and for women the goals of industry, hospitality, kindness and chastity. Discusses naming ceremonies, the mysterious and unexplainable wakan ki, and other aspects of culture.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2001.

Discussion with LeAnne Howe on her novels Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story and Shell Shaker and their representations of Choctawan cultural elements such as spirituality, linguistic characteristics, ancient trade and diplomacy practices, and gender roles.

Article attempts to examine some of the reasons the Chumash people elected to be baptized, the consequences for that choice, and the resistance (both overt and subversive) that they offered to Christian missionaries.

Author discusses how a 'negative space' was articulated in relation to Indigenous women, which was in turn used to oppress European women.

Book review of: Circumpolar Lives And Livelihood: A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology Of Gender And Subsistence edited by Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach.

Article examines the construct of white masculinity in the interior of British Columbia during the Cariboo Gold Rush; discusses how the intersection with the settler-colonial agenda created a socially enforced code of behavior that demanded that men both subscribe to Victorian values, but also present with a roughness or heartiness about their person. Also illustrates how this construct of white masculinity justified violence towards women and racialized persons.

Discusses how gender roles have changed under colonization, the extent of violence, and how its eradication against women.

Discusses how colonization has impacted women in Maori society and examines the effects as a result of colonization.

Examines how the fur trade altered gender relations and enhanced the position of males relative to females.

Examines the possibilities for giving rise to change through cross-cultural collaborations.

Book review of: Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas edited by M. Bianet Castellanos, Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, and Arturo J. Aldama. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 127.

Book review of: Comparative Indigeneities of the Ameréricas: Towards a Hemispheric Approach edited by M. B. Castellanos, L. G. Nájera and A. J. Aldama.

Author uses the writings of early Euro-American explorers and anthropologists to describe the gender roles of male and female Lenni Lenape people; covers household/familial duties, lineage tracing, ceremony, social/political agency. Discussion queer individuals is not present.

Looks at colonialism and the sexual exploitation of the Chinookan woman by the newcomers.

Article critically examines the ways in which current standards around community-research partnerships tend to reinforce the colonial structures of heteronormative patriarchy, and continue to engage with Indigenous peoples as a single homogenous group. Author proposes Indigenous feminist and Indigenous women’s methodologies as a solution.

Conference highlighted the importance of diversity in gender, social realities, education, economics and cooperation between public and private sectors and living conditions of men and women in the Circumpolar North.

Looks at Canadian Aboriginal women activists and their fight for constitutional sex equality rights.

A discussion of Indigenous feminist politics and the relationship between Indigenous women and water using the Flint water crisis and NoDAPL action at Standing Rock to illustrate.

States that power, control and isolation are key components in maintaining "good order" and are also key components of colonialism.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1996.

Argues contaminants effect men and women differently; further arguing that these gender differences and environmental justice must be addressed.

An examination of the shift from Indigenous women being highly valued in traditional Indigenous communities to being devalued in modern times through colonial interventions.

Argues that differences in role flexibility by sex help channel the political participation of men and women.

Compares the categories of code that eight Western Washington tribes have created and how they influence women's lives.

Discussion of the struggle for identity and the complications not only of ethnicity and mixed heritage, but of gender and sexuality. Scroll to page 9 to access article.