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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.

Indigenous women --- Aboriginal women --- Native women --- Women --- Employment. --- Employment --- E-books --- Economic conditions.

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Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individuals-a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women-wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories.

Indian women --Canada --History. --- Indian women --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- History --- History. --- Women, Indian --- Women --- Indigenous women --- Aboriginal women --- Native women

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An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980's. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types of knowledge traditionally held by men, yielding a perspective that is at once gendered and incomplete. Even those academics, communities, and governments interested in consulting with Indigenous peoples for the purposes of planning, monitoring, and managing land use have largely ignored the knowledge traditionally produced, preserved, and transmitted by Indigenous women. While this omission reflects patriarchal assumptions, it may also be the result of the reductionist tendencies of researchers, who have attempted to organize Indigenous knowledge so as to align it with Western scientific categories, and of policy makers, who have sought to deploy such knowledge in the service of external priorities. Such efforts to apply Indigenous knowledge have had the effect of abstracting this knowledge from place as well as from the world view and community—and by extension the gender—to which it is inextricably connected. Living on the Land examines how patriarchy, gender, and colonialism have shaped the experiences of Indigenous women as both knowers and producers of knowledge. From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to the volume explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape. From the reconstruction of cultural and ecological heritage by Naskapi women in Québec to the medical expertise of Métis women in western Canada to the mapping and securing of land rights in Nicaragua, Living on the Land focuses on the integral role of women as stewards of the land and governors of the community. Together, these contributions point to a distinctive set of challenges and possibilities for Indigenous women and their communities.

Indigenous women. --- Place (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Aboriginal women --- Native women --- Women --- Treaties --- Arctic Studies --- Inuit --- United Nations --- Women's Studies --- Land Claims --- Nicaragua --- Feminist criticism --- Indigenous population --- Land ownership --- Patriarchy --- Sexism --- Food --- Images of women --- Book --- Ecology

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Fleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration, interacted with other migrants and negotiated colonial laws. This is the first study of Indian coolie women in British Malaya to date. In exploring the politicization of labour migration trends and gender relations in the colonial plantation society in British Malaya, the author foregrounds how the migrant Indian 'coolie' women manipulated colonial legal and administrative perceptions of Indian women; their gender-prescriptive roles, relations within patriarchal marriage institutions, and even the emerging Indian national independence movement in India and Malaya. All this, to ensure their survival, escape from unfavourable relations and situations, and improve their lives. The book also introduces the concept of situational or fleeting agency, which contributes to further a nuanced understanding of agency in the lives of Indian coolie women.

Indigenous women --- Unskilled labor --- Laborers --- Low-skilled labor --- Low-skilled workers --- Labor --- Aboriginal women --- Native women --- Women --- Social conditions --- History. --- Indentured servants --- Indian women --- Social conditions. --- Women, Indian --- Servants, Indentured --- Contract labor --- Slave labor

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"Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest. Co-edited by two eminent scholars, this multidisciplinary volume, an outgrowth of several conferences/seminars, critically examines various encounters between western missionaries and indigenous women in the Pacific/Asia … Taken as a whole, this is a thought-provoking and an indispensable reference, not only for students of colonialism/imperialism but also for those of us who have an interest in transnational and gender history in general. The chapters are very clearly written, engaging, and remarkably accessible; the stories are compelling and the research is thorough. The illustrations are equally riveting and the bibliography is extremely useful.—Theodore Jun Yoo, History Department, University of Hawai’i"--Publisher's website.

Indigenous women -- Asia. --- Indigenous women -- Pacific Area. --- Indigenous women. --- Missions -- Asia. --- Missions -- Pacific Area. --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Indigenous women --- Missions --- Aboriginal women --- Native women --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Women --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- transnational history --- imperialism --- colonialism --- asia pacific --- gender history --- Missionary