Description |
1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : maps |
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Anthropological horizons ; 15 |
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Anthropological horizons ; 15.
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Contents |
Between home and field: feminist activism at the grass roots -- Gender, ethnicity, and labour before and after the 'carefree years' -- Re-creating home: the local construction of feminist practice -- Contextualizing dependency: single mothers and feminist politics -- Sexual abuse and violence: contested meanings and the politics of narrative -- Grass-roots activism and feminist politics -- Rethinking community: feminist activism and sustained settlement -- Conclusion |
Summary |
"This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of poverty, single motherhood, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence, and examines the interplay of feminist and Newfoundland identification among these individuals." "Drawing on fourteen months of observation and interviews with women at the council, Glynis George provides a much needed, specifically Canadian, contribution to ethnocultural and feminist studies. The research situates the particular concerns and political activism of these women in this rural region of Canada within the larger context of economic restructuring and neo-liberal economic and social policies that continue to marginalize women in Canada and around the world."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Subject |
Feminism -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Stephenville
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Women political activists -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Stephenville
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Women social reformers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Stephenville
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Feminism
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Women political activists
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Women social reformers
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Stephenville
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781442679443 |
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1442679441 |
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