Description
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an emerging Indigenous feminist project.
Trade ReviewA pioneering text…
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is a comprehensive, inclusive, heterogeneous, and valuable collection for anyone studying Indigenous issues or histories, feminisms, cultural studies and criticism, decolonization, or literary studies. -- Patricia Miranda Barkaskas,
The Goose, Issue 10, 2012
Table of ContentsIndigenous Feminism: Theorizing the Issues / Shari M. Huhndorf and Cheryl Suzack
Part 1: Politics
1 From the Tundra to the Boardroom to Everywhere in Between: Politics and the Changing Roles of Inuit Women in the Arctic / Minnie Grey
2 Native Women and Leadership: An Ethics of Culture and Relationship / Rebecca Tsosie
3 “But we are your mothers, you are our sons”: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation in Early Cherokee Women’s Writing / Laura E. Donaldson
4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project / Patricia Penn Hilden and Leece M. Lee
Part 2: Activism
5 Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist / Kim Anderson
6 Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact / Jean Barman
7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalition Feminism: Anna Julia Cooper’s “Woman versus the Indian” / Teresa Zackodnik
8 Emotion Before the Law / Cheryl Suzack
9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women and Narratives of Empowerment in Japan / ann-elise lewallen
Part 3: Culture
10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica / Shari M. Huhndorf
11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses of Memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault
12 To Spirit Walk the Letter and the Law: Gender, Race, and Representational Violence in Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman / Julia Emberley
13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras / Pamela McCallum
14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater / Katherine Young Evans
15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch
16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back with Cameras / Patricia Demers
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