Cold Comforts: Women Making Inuit and Qallunaat Homes in the Eastern Arctic and North American Cultures of Exploration, 1890-1940

• Main Author: Crooks, Katherine
• Other Authors: Department of History, Doctor of Philosophy, Dr. Cecilia Morgan, Dr. Colin Mitchell, Dr. John Reid, Dr. Lisa Binkley, Dr. Jerry Bannister, Not Applicable
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Gender History; Arctic Exploration; American Culture; Canadian Arctic; British Culture; Greenland; Labrador; Baffin Island; Ellesmere Island; Inuit Nunangat; Domesticity; Colonialism; Arctic; Canada; Qallunaat; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/79954

This thesis explores the experiences of white and Inuit women who were involved with American expeditions in North America’s Eastern Arctic between 1890 and 1940. In studying the intersecting histories of women who were participant in and affected by Arctic exploration, it considers how their moveme...