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and in a few cases may detract from it. The Luxton and Rosenberg collection is a disappointment both in terms of its content and sloppy editing. Nevertheless, what these efforts do point to is the opening up of a vast array of topics that may be addressed under the rubric of control of the private and public realms, and the urgent necessity to continue in the effort to debunk the prevailing myth of home. NOTES 1. William Chambliss, Criminal Law In Action, 2nd ed. (New York: Wiley, 1984). 2. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1979). 3. Jacques Donzelot, The Policing Of Families (New York: Pantheon, 1979), p. 7. 4. Quote from Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, n.d.), pp. 543-57. 5. Eli Zaretsky, Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life (New York: Harper Torchbooks , 1976), p. 29. 6. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years ofF.xperts' Advice to Women (Garden City: Anchor, 1978), p. 9. 7. Ehrenreich and English, p. IO. 8. Lesley D. Harman, "The Creation of the 'Bag Lady': Rethinking Home for Homeless Women," Human Affairs 12 (1987), pp. 58-86. 9. Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales, Family, Socialization and Interaction Process (New York: Free Press, 1955). IO. Zaretsky, p. 81. 11. Varda Burstyn, "Masculine Dominance and the State," in V. Burstyn and D. Smith, eds., Women, Class, Family and the State (Toronto: Garamond Press, 1985), pp. 60-61. 12. Burstyn, p. 64. 13. Ehrenreich and English, p. 30. 14. Edwin M. Schur, Crimes Without Victims : Deviant Behaviour and Public Policy (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965). 15. At time of press, the Supreme Court of Canada had found the existing laws on abortion unconstitutional. It is still too early to tell what new laws may emerge, 170 or what forms the inevitable social control of abortions will take. 16. Meg Luxton, More Than A Labour of Love: Three Generations of Womens Work in the Home (Toronto: Women's Press, 1980). 17. Pat Annstrong and Hugh Annstrong, 1he Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978). LESLEY D. HARMAN Kings College University of Western Ontario Legacies and Challenges: Amerindians in Contemporary Canada INDIAN EDUCATION IN CANADA. I: THE LEGACY, 168pp. II: THE CHALLENGE, 256pp. Ed. Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, and Don McCaskill. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986-87. A NARROW VISION: DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN CANADA. E. Brian Titley. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. 245pp. THE GENTLE PERSUADER: A BIOGRAPHYOFJAMES GLADSTONE, INDIAN SENATOR. Hugh A. Dempsey. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1986. 225pp. Since their first appearance in the Americas, Amerindians have survived because of their capacity to adapt. The Euro-Canadian stereotype that time had somehow managed to stand still for the prehistoric New World testifies to the persistence of first impressions, rather than indicating a reality. First encounters engraved an image of Amerindian societies into Euro-Canadian folklore that has never left us, and makes it difficult to apRevue detudes canadiennes Vol. 23, No. 3 (Automne 1988 Fall) preciate that what was recorded was a moment in time, a "freeze" of an instant in the histories ofdynamic communities. Never was this dynamism more evident than during the period of transition from "traditional" self-containment to the interlocking , interdependent, market dominated lifestyle of the present day. If Amerindians became dependent, as historians are fond of observing, they were doing so out of the necessity of adapting to the norms of the non-Amerindian world that was engulfing them. The four books being considered here examine this process of adaptation and accommodation from three different perspectives: education, administration, and reserve life. The picture that emerges illustrates very clearly how difficult the process can be of translating ideals into the living patterns of society, particularly when it is by imposition. The educators, administrators, and politicians who wander through these pages were all, without exception, working for the "good" of Amerindians, and most of them were convinced they had a better appreciation of this than Amerindians themselves. If Canada's aboriginal peoples suffered, as they did...