Capturing women
Subtitle: the manipulation of cultural imagery in Canada's Prairie West
By: Sarah Carter.
Series: McGill-Queen's native and northern series -- 17
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Montréal, Qué
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Women, White -- Prairie Provinces -- History.; Native women -- Prairie Provinces -- History.; Indian captivities -- Prairie Provinces.; Prairie Provinces -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.; Prairie Provinces -- Social conditions.
Description: The late 1800s was a critical era in the social history of the Canadian Prairies: racial tensions increased between white settlers and the Native population 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 stereotyping images of Native and European women were created and manipulated to establish boundaries between Native peoples and white settlers and to justify repressive measures against the Native population.
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