Sarah A. Carter

Capturing Women

ISBN: 978-0-7735-1655-7
EAN: 9780773516557
Produktnummer: 1361070
Verlag: McGill-Queen&#039;s University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Sonstiges: Professional &amp; Vocational

The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West

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The late 1800s was a critical era in the social history of the Canadian Prairies during which racial tensions between white settlers and the Native population grew and colonial authority was perceived to be increasingly threatened. As a result white settlers began to erect social and spatial barriers to segregate themselves from the indigenous population. In Capturing Women Sarah Carter examines popular representations of women that emerged at the time, arguing that stereotypical images of Native and European women were created and manipulated to establish boundaries between Native peoples and white settlers and to justify repressive measures… Mehr