topic:"Gender" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Exploring the role of gender politics in narratives about high-altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit"--a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle--and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Leadership and Gender on Annapurna -- K2: The Gendered Rope -- Everest and Authenticity -- Everest: Gender Politics and the 1996 Disaster.

ISBN: 9780228006268

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 01.1 R14f

Collection: Archives Library

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Feminism's fight : challenging politics and policies in Canada since 1970

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 C14f

Responsibility: Edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton

Publisher: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 378 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Feminism; Women; Women's Rights; Canada; Equality; Human rights; Sexism; Gender

Abstract: Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality? -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton -- Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater -- Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron -- Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher -- Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell -- Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan -- The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel -- Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter -- Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky -- The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin -- Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt -- Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.

ISBN: 9780774868037

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 08.1 C14f

Collection: Archives Library

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In good relation : history, gender, and kinship in indigenous feminisms

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Call Number: 07.2 N53i

Responsibility: Edited by Sarah Nickel and Amanda Fehr

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Traditions; Women; Feminism; Gender; Sexuality

Abstract: Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous feminism and whether or not it was a useful concept. Emerging from these dialogues are conversations from a new generation of scholars, activists, artists, and storytellers who accept the usefulness of Indigenous feminism and seek to broaden the concept. In Good Relation captures this transition and makes sense of Indigenous feminist voices that are not necessarily represented in existing scholarship. There is a need to further Indigenize our understandings of feminism and to take the scholarship beyond a focus on motherhood, life history, or legal status (in Canada) to consider the connections between Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous philosophies, the environment, kinship, violence, and Indigenous Queer Studies. Organized around the notion of "generations," this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience. Taking a broad and critical interpretation of Indigenous feminism, it depicts how an emerging generation of artists, activists, and scholars are envisioning and invigorating the strength and power of Indigenous women. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: Introduction / Sarah Nickel -- Broadening indigenous feminisms. The uninvited / by Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Us / by Elaine McArthur -- Making matriarchs at Coqualeetza : Sto´:lo¯ women's politics and histories across generations / by Madeline Rose Knickerbocker -- Sa´mi feminist moments : decolonization and Indigenous feminism / by Astri Dankertsen -- "It just piles on, and piles on, and piles on" : young Indigenous women and the colonial imagination / by Tasha Hubbard with Joi T. Arcand, Zoey Roy, Darian Lonechild, and Marie Sanderson -- "Making an honest effort" : Indian homemakers' clubs and complex settler engagements / by Sarah Nickel -- Queer and two-spirit identities, and sexuality. Reclaiming traditional gender roles : a two-spirit critique / by Kai Pyle -- Reading Chrystos for feminisms that honour two-spirit erotics / by Aubrey Jean Hanson -- Naawenangweyaabeg Coming in : intersections of Indigenous sexuality and spirituality / by Chantal Fiola -- Morning star, and moon share the sky : (re)membering two-spirit identity through culture-centred HIV prevention curriculum for Indigenous youth / by Ramona Beltra´n, Antonia R.G. Alvarez, and Miriam M. Puga -- Multi-generational feminisms and kinship. Honouring our great-grandmothers : an ode to Caroline LaFramboise, twentieth-century Me´tis matriach / by Zoe Todd -- on anishinaabe parental kinship with black girl life : twenty-first century ([de]colonial) turtle island / by waaseyaa'sin christine sy with aja sy -- Toward an Indigenous relational aesthetics : making Native love, still / by Lindsay Nixon -- Conversations on Indigenous feminism / by Omeasoo Wa¯hpa¯siw and Louise Halfe -- These are my daughters / by Anina Major.

ISBN: 9780887558511

Accession Number: P2023.09

Call Number: 07.2 N53i

Collection: Archives Library

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Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 07.2 St2i

Responsibility: Edited by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Aime´e Craft, and Hokulani K Aikau

Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Customs; Indigenous People; Indigenous Traditions; Reconciliation; Colonialism; Identity; Gender

Abstract: What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks. The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought. Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Artist Statement / Lianne Marie Leda Charlie -- Introduction: Generating a Critical Resurgence Together / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark-- Part 1: Realizing Resurgence Together. 1. Beyond the Grammar of Settler Apologies / Mishuana Goeman -- 2. Spirit and Matter: Resurgence as Rising and (Re)creation as Ethos / Dian Million -- 3. Removing Weeds so Natives Can Grow: A Metaphor Reconsidered / Hokulani K. Aikau -- 4. (Ad)dressing Wounds: Expansive Kinship Inside and Out / Dallas Hunt -- Part 2: Claiming Our Relationships to the Political. 5. Beyond Rights and Wrongs: Towards Resurgence of a Treaty-Based Ethic of Relationality / Gina Starblanket -- 6. Thawing the Frozen Rights Theory: On Rejecting Interpretations of Reconciliation and Resurgence That Define Indigenous Peoples as Frozen in a Pre-colonial Past / Aimée Craft -- 7. Nêhiyaw Hunting Pedagogies and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws / Darcy Lindberg -- Part 3: Narrating Reconciliation and Resurgence. 8. Thinking through Resurgence Together: A Conversation between Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson / Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- 9. Truth-Telling amidst Reconciliation Discourses: How Stories Reshape Our Relationships / Jeff Corntassel -- 10. Political Action in the Time of Reconciliation / Corey Snelgrove and Matthew Wildcat -- Part 4: Reconciling Lands, Bodies, and Gender. 11. Body Land, Water, and Resurgence in Oaxaca / Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez -- 12. To Respect Indigenous Territorial Protocol: Hosting the Olympic Games on Indigenous Lands in Settler Colonial Canada / Christine O’Bonsawin -- 13. “Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil”: Gender, Kinship, and an Indignant Model of Métis Nationhood / Daniel Voth -- 14. Red Utopia / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

ISBN: 9781487544607

Accession Number: P2023.10

Call Number: 07.2 St2i

Collection: Archives Library

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