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Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada

Henderson, Jennifer

2003,2000

Overview

Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canadaengages in a discursive analysis of three 'texts' - the narratives of Anna Jameson (Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada), Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney (Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear), and the 'Janey Canuck' books of Emily Murphy - in order to examine how, in the context of a settler colony, white women have been part of the project of its governance, its racial constitution, and its role in British imperialism. Using Foucauldian theories of governmentality to connect these first-person narratives to wider strategies of race making, Jennifer Henderson develops a feminist critique of the ostensible freedom that Anglo-Protestant women found within nineteenth-century liberal projects of rule. Henderson's interdisciplinary approach - including critical studies in law, literature, and political history - offers a new perspective on these women that detaches them from the dominant colony-to-nation narrative and shows their importance in a tradition of moral regulation. This project not only redresses problems in Canadian literary history, it also responds to the limits of postcolonial, nationalist, and feminist projects that search for authentic voices and resistant agency without sufficient attention to the layers of historical sedimentation through which these voices speak.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press,University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
• Subject: 1794-1860 / 1863-1899 / 1868-1933 / 19th century / 20th century / Anna / Biography / Canada / Canada -- Race relations / Canadian / Canadian literature / Canadian literature (English) / Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Canadian literatureture-Women authors-History and criticism / Criticism and interpretation / Emily Ferguson / Ethnic relations / Feminism / Frontier and pioneer life / Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada / Frontier and pioneer life in literature / Gowanlock, Theresa / Gowanlock, Theresa, 1863-1899. Two months in the camp of Big Bear / HISTORY / HISTORY / Canada / General / History and criticism / Interethnic relations / Jameson / Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860. Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian / Literature / Mrs / Murphy, Emily F / Murphy, Emily F. (Emily Ferguson), 1868-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation / Race / Race relations in literature / Two months in the camp of Big Bear / White women / Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada / Women / Women and literature / Women and literature -- Canada / Women authors / Women pioneers / Women pioneers -- Canada -- Biography / Women, White / Women, White -- Canada -- Biography
• ISBN: 0802037038, 9780802037039, 9781442679818, 1442679816