DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Susan Bordo, Northern Canada, Burrard Inlet
24 Jun 2017
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Myra rutherdale she was a ragged little thing: missionaries, embodiment and. Susan bordo has argued that the body can be read as a cultural text upon which trends are acted out and through which desires are expresses. These desires are revealed through attire, appearance, and fashion. Decisions about how the body is clothed and cared for often reveal how individuals wish to construct their cultural and social identity. Fashion can be critically in defining ones social class. This chapter looks at how anglican missionaries in bc, the yukon, and the north west territories from 1870-1940 wrote about the bodies of aboriginal women. The way these missionaries describe the bodies of these women shows how they viewed themselves and how they perceived aboriginal people. The missionaries not only wanted to introduce regimes of hygiene and new medical practices, but they also wanted to change how. Missionaries changed school lessons and church services to be about hygiene.
