From Female Shamans to Danish Housewives:Colonial Constructions of Gender in Greenland, 1721 to ca 1970

• Published in: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
• Main Authors: Arnfred, Signe, Pedersen, Kirsten Bransholm
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Williamson; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/edfdf0d9-f486-4987-b7a0-cf3be89232f5; https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2015.1094128; https://hdl.handle.net/1800/edfdf0d9-f486-4987-b7a0-cf3be89232f5

Taking its inspiration from post-colonial feminist scholarship, particularly the writings of Greenland scholar Karla Jessen Williamson, this paper sets out to trace the ways in which conceptions of gender in Greenland changed as a consequence of the eighteenth-century colonial encounter with Christi...