Jean Barman

Jean Barman, “Aboriginal Women on the Streets of Victoria: Rethinking Transgressive Sexuality During the Colonial Encounter.” Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past, edited by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005).

In selecting the articles, the jury commended Barman for her sensitive recreation of both the sexual conflicts and possibilities experienced by Aboriginal women, and for her nuanced rethinking of the identities and motives of white settler men in their sexual exchanges with First Nations women. Barman’s essay also advances the Canadian historiography by locating the history of sexuality within the context of Canada’s colonial past.