Trading Gazes - Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940

Trading Gazes reconstructs the rich biographical and historical contexts explaining these women's presence in different Native communities of the North American West. Their photographs not only record the unprecedented opportunities available for Euro-American women eager to shed gender restrictions, but also reveal how women's newfound mobility depended on the increasing restrictions placed on Native Americans in this era. By tracing the complex, often unexpected relationships forged between these women, their cameras, and the Native subjects of their photographs, Trading Gazes offers a new focus for recovering women's histories in the West while bringing attention to the complicated legacies of these images for Native and non-Native viewers.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Empire of the Lens: Women, Indians, and Cameras / Susan Bernardin / Melody Graulich / Lisa MacFarlane / Nicole Tonkovich
``Lost in the General Wreckage of the Far West'': The Photographs and Writings of Jane Gay / Nicole Tonkovich
``I Became the `Colony''': Kate Cory's Hopi Photographs / Melody Graulich
Mary Schaffer's ``Comprehending Equal Eyes'' / Lisa MacFarlane
Capturing and Recapturing Culture: Trailing Grace Nicholson's Legacy in Northwestern California / Susan Bernardin
Afterword. Their Shadows before Them: Photographing Indians / Louis Owens
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Susan Bernardin is an assistant professor of Native American and American Literature at SUNY-Oneonta. Melody Graulich is a professor of English/American studies at Utah State University and the editor of Western American Literature. Lisa MacFarlane is an associate professor of English and coordinator of American studies at the University of New Hampshire. Nicole Tonkovich is an associate professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

A vast archive of photographs of the American West chronicled American expansion and the subordination of many Native peoples. This volume tells the stories of four unconventional women photographers and their subjects, providing the reader with insights into a network of complex relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Bernardin, etc., Melody Graulich, Melody (Professor of English/American Studies Graulich, Lisa MacFarlane, Lisa (Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of American Studies MacFarlane, Nicole Tonkovich, Nicole (Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies Tonkovich, Lisa MacFarlane (Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of American Studies USA), Melody Graulich (Professor of English/American Studies USA), Nicole Tonkovich (Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies USA)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2003
• EAN: 9780813531700
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-3170-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 257 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 644 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous