Settler feminism and race making in Canada
By: Jennifer Henderson.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Jameson, Mrs. 1794-1860.; Gowanlock, Theresa, 1863-1899.; Murphy, Emily F. 1868-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women pioneers -- Canada -- Biography.; Women, White -- Canada -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada.; Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Frontier and pioneer life in literature.; Women and literature -- Canada.; Race relations in literature.; Canada -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada engages 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.