Indigenous women and work : from labor to activism / edited by Carol Williams.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Preface Marlene Brant Castellano; Acknowledgments; Introduction Carol Williams; 1. Aboriginal Women and Work across the 49th Parallel: Historical Antecedents and New Challenges Joa; 2. Making a Living: Anishinaabe Women in Michigan's Changing Economy Alice Littlefield; 3. Procuring Passage: Southern Australian Aboriginal Women and the Early Maritime Industry of Sealin; 4. The Contours of Agency: Women's Work, Race, and Queensland's Indentured Labor Trade Tracey Baniva.

5. From ""Superabundance"" to Dependency: Women Agriculturalists and the Negotiation of Colonialism a-6. ""We Were Real Skookum Women": The shishalh Economy and the Logging Industry on the Pacific Northw; 7. Unraveling the Narratives of Nostalgia: Navajo Weavers and Globalization Kathy M'Closkey; 8. Labor and Leisure in the ""Enchanted Summer Land"": Anishinaabe Women's Work and the Growth of Wisc; 9. Nimble Fingers and Strong Backs: First Nations and Metis Women in Fur Trade and Rural Economies S.

10. Northfork Mono Women's Agricultural Work, ""Productive Coexistence, "" and Social Well-Being in tha11. Diverted Mothering among American Indian Domestic Servants, 1920-1940 Margaret D. Jacobs; 12. Charity or Industry? American Indian Women and Work Relief in the New Deal Era Colleen O'Neill; 13. ""An Indian Teacher among Indians"": Native Women As Federal Employees Cathleen D. Cahill; 14. ""Assaulting the Ears of Government"": The Indian Homemakers' Clubs and the Maori Women's Welfare ; 15. Politically Purposeful Work: Ojibwe Women's Labor and Leadership in Postwar Minneapolis Brenda J.

16. Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement Cybele Locke17. Beading Lesson Beth H. Piatote; Contributors; Index.

These essays create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late 19th century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada.

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