Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance

Amber Dean

Published by University of Toronto Press 2015

Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women

Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance

Amber Dean

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442660847

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About this book

Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Author / Editor information

Dean Amber :

Amber Dean is an assistant professor in the Gender Studies and Feminist Research Program and the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Reviews

Adele Perry, Department of History, University of Manitoba:

“Using a rigorously interdisciplinary approach, Remembering Vancouver’s Disappeared Women offers a thoughtful, reflexive feminist account of how Vancouver’s ‘missing women’ live on and reverberate through the present.”

Deanna Reder, Departments of First Nations Studies and English, Simon Fraser University:

“Dean’s work is an ambitious and ground-breaking examination of how our re-telling of stories affects our visceral responses to violence; she provokes her readers to contemplate how we are implicated in these acts of terror.”

Becki L. Ross, Department of Sociology and Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British Columbia:

“A decade in the making, this book is a fine-grained, ethically minded, and passionately argued act of commemoration. With tenderness, verve, and theoretical rigour, Amber Dean insists that present-day legacies of gender-based settler colonial conquest are continuously re-enacted, with bloody consequences. Interrogating paintings, videos, photographs, posters, and poetry through her feminist-decolonial-queer lens, Dean unleashes a fierce, urgent imperative to become ‘inheritors’ of what lives on, rather than ‘bystanders’ to multiple losses. Her arguments supply precious fuel for national inquiry into disappeared and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, and globally.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Introduction: Inheriting What Lives On Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One.The Present Pasts Of Vancouver’S Downtown Eastside Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter Two .Following Ghosts: Different Knowings, Knowing Differently Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter Three. Looking At Images Of Vancouver’S Disappeared Women: Troubling Desires To “Humanize” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter Four.Shadowing The “Missing Women” Story: “Squaw Men,” Whores, And Other Queer(Ed) Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter Five.Memory’S Difficult Returns: Memorializing Vancouver’S Disappeared Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Conclusion Reckoning (For The Present) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 14

eBook

Published: October 8, 2018
ISBN: 9781442660847