Gender Roles

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Introduction: Gender Issues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanna Kafarlowski
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, Problématiques des sexes / Gender Issues, 2006, pp. 5-8
Description
Introductory article on theme issue devoted to gender issues.
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Inuit Arctic Policy

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Circumpolar Council
Description
Discusses updated version of Inuit Arctic Policy looking at goals and objectives, Inuit rights, peace and security, environmental, social and economic issues.
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Inuit Women and the Politics of Naming in Nunavut

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Valerie Alia
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, Women of the North, Fall, 1994, pp. 11-14
Description
Comments on traditional ways of naming, the governmental disk identity system and surname program, census issues for Inuit, and problems with southern conceptions of family and adoption.
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Inuit Youth in a Changing World

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard G. Condon
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Hydroelectric Dams and Indigenous Peoples, Summer, 1988
Description
Looks at the different roles and responsibilities expected of Inuit youth entering adulthood today compared with Inuit youth in the past.
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"It's Hard To Be a Woman!": First Nations Women Living With HIV/AIDS

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Judith Ship
Laura Norton
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, HIV/AIDS: Issues within Aboriginal Populations, September 2000, pp. 73-89
Description
Looks at the experiences and perspectives of First Nations women living with HIV/AIDS and examines how HIV/AIDS affects their lives differently from the men's lives.
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Job Satisfaction and Aboriginal Labour Mobility Among Non-Reserve Populations: An Overlooked Variable?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Adams
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall, 2010, pp. 55-68
Description
Looks at how labour mobility is affected by job security, gender, age, education and Aboriginal identity for Métis, non-status, and First Nations people. [One or more images have been omitted from this article due to copyright restrictions. These images are accessible in the print version of this journal.]
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Justice: The Experiences of Mäori Women

Alternate Title
Law Commission ; Report 53
Parliamentary Paper E 321AN
Te Tikanga o te Ture - Te Mätaurange o ngä Wahine Mäori e pa ana ki tënei
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joanne Morris
Margaret Lee
D. F. Dugdale
Denese Henare
Timothy Brewer
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Keepers of the Light: Inuit Women's Action Plan

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Description
Discusses four priority areas for policy: equity and empowerment; health and safety; strengthening Inuit families and Inuit women's voice in global issues.
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Lajamanu - Women Working Together

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christine Clarence
Jane MacDonald
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, July/August 1998, pp. 2-3
Description
Reports on a program which encompassed older, influential women in a remote, outback community in Northern Territory, Australia empowering them to take responsibility for their own well being.
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Life Is Harder Here: The Case of the Urban Navajo Woman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce Griffin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 90-104
Description
Using interviews with Navajo women working in Flagstaff, Arizona to discuss their part as "the cutting edge" of Navajo relocations to urban centers.
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Locating the Aboriginal Gender Gap: The Political Preferences and Participation of Aboriginal Women in Canada

Alternate Title
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 82nd, 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Allison Harell
Dimitrios Panagos
Description
Findings show an Aboriginal gender gap in vote choice that is far more pronounced than the non-Aboriginal counterpart. Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, June 1-3, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec.
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"Loss Must Be Marked and It Cannot Be Represented": Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Becki Lynn Ross
Jamie Lee Hamilton
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, 2018, pp. 9-38
Description
Looks at the culture of the area prior to the illegal evictions in 1984, history of advocacy by and for sex trade workers in Vancouver, and the authors’ struggle to secure reparations, an apology and a permanent memorial. Also discusses these issues in the context of ‘reconciliation’ and the consequences of racialization and criminalization.
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Louisa May Alcott’s Wild Indians: Pedagogy of Love, Politics of Empire

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Steve Benton
Description
Discusses gender discourse and territorial expansion policies in Louisa May Alcott’s novels and its negative effect on many Native American people.
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The Lynx in Time: Haudenosaunee Women's Traditions and History

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara A. Mann
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 423-449
Description
Author explores the stories of the Jigonsaseh (Haudenosaunee Clan Mothers), how these women’s stories have been skewed through the Western lens of ethnography, and how reclamation of these narratives is important in the ongoing reevaluation of women’s social roles.
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The Making of Men

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Douglas Belcher
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, December 1978, pp. 35-36
Description
Talks about the cessation and revival of lurugu (circumcision) ceremony on a northern Australian island.
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Manly Contests: Rodeo Masculinities at the Calgary Stampede

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary-Ellen Kelm
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 711-751
Description
Suggests that the event represented economic self-sufficiency, personal independence, and the development of new rodeo masculinities for both settlers and Aboriginal men in early twentieth-century Western Canada.
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Manly-Hearted Women Among the North Piegan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Oscar Lewis
American Anthropologist, vol. 43, no. 2, New Series; Part 1, April-June 1941, pp. 173-187
Description
Explains a different type of female personality and their role among the North Piegan Indians.
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