Woman in Canada, Annotated Bibliography Example

Anderson, K. A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2000.

The keywords for this reference are Native women and Identity. Anderson explores the possibility of existence of any role that is associated with the native women. The author is really a woman herself but continues arguing that the Native womanhood does not necessarily entail engaging in certain types of roles; neither does it entail adoption of present identity. Anderson associates the role of women to a continuous exercise that entails striking a balance between an personal individuality, the position in the family unit, the much broader community, the spiritual world as well as the nation. The author illustrates the extent to which the identity of the Native women has been broken in to pieces overtime by means of colonization, disrespect as well as abuse in the context of Native community. Anderson illustrates the efforts of cultural traditions reclamation by the Native women coupled with attempt to create positive their positive images as an indication of their heritage.

Browne, A. & Fiske, J. First Nations Women’s Encounters with Mainstream Health Care Services. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 23, 126, 2001.

The keywords for this article include basic physical needs, health care, racism and first nation’s women according to Browne and Fiske, encounters of healthcare is a crucial study area as political, social, economic as well as ideological relationships of a dominant system of health care and the patients is clearly reflected. The article evaluates the encounters in mainstream healthcare from the standpoint of the 1^st Nations women in a community residing in northwestern region of Canada. The author applies critical as well as feminist ethnographic procedures to conduct the interviews to ten of the 1^stNation women. The findings of the study were presented in two themes dased on characterization of the women in terms of ‘invalidating’ and the ‘affirming’ encounters. The findings indicated that, the encounters of the women were based on racism, structural inequalities as well as discrimination which are the basis of their marginalization and making them to be a disadvantages group. The healthcare experiences of such women was associated with political, historical as well as economic implications and they also reflect a broader postcolonial link which destines their day to day life.

Grace, S. Aboriginal Women. In D. E. Stewart, A. M. Cheung, L. E. Ferris, I. Hyman, M. M. Cohen, & J. I. Williams (Eds.), Ontario Women’s Health Status Report (pp. 359-373), 2002.

According to Grace, women are basically labelled as givers of life in the context of customary aboriginal cultures. The traditional role of women was thus held with high esteem. Unfortunately, majority of the aboriginal women are exposed to higher risks of complicated health issues as compared to other women which is associated with the marginalization of the aboriginal women coupled with the rapid transformations in their culture. The author gives an illustration of life expectancy which has been documented to be shorter among aboriginal women relative the non-aboriginal ones. The rates of suicides are also higher among aboriginal young women and the rates of diabetes are also significantly higher among aboriginals relative to the Canadians. The aboriginal women are also highly affected by cardiovascular and respiratory ailments, cervical cancer, problems of mental health, sexually transmitted ailments, liver cirrhosis, disability and common infections as compared as compared to the non-aboriginal women. Some of the aboriginal women alongside their children commonly relocate as a result of domestic violence coupled with inaccessibility of support especially in the isolated as well as remote areas. They are therefore forced to live in unsafe environments, overcrowded houses and detrimental lifestyles.