Indigenous women and feminism : politics, activism, culture

Summary: "Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed within current mainstream feminist and post-colonial discussions? Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture proposes that a dynamic new line of inquiry -- Indigenous feminism -- is necessary to truly engage with the crucial issues of cultural identity, nationalism, and decolonization particular to Indigenous contexts.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774818070
ISBN: 0774818077
Physical Description: print
x, 333 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Indigenous feminism : theorizing the issue / Shari M. Huhndorf and Cheryl Suzack -- Politics. From the tundra to the boardroom to everywhere in between : politics and the changing roles of Inuit women in the Arctic / Minnie Grey ; Native women and leadership : an ethics of culture and relationship / Rebecca Tsosie ; But we are your mothers, you are our sons : gender, sovereignty, and the nation in early Cherokee women's writing / Laura E. Donaldson ; Indigenous feminism : the project / Patricia Penn Hilden and Leece M. Lee -- Activism. Affirmations of a indigenous feminist / Kim Anderson ; Indigenous women and feminism on the cusp of contact / Jean Barman ; Reaching toward a red-black coalitional feminism : Anna Julia Cooper's "women versus the Indian" / Teresa Zackodnik ; Emotion before the law / Cheryl Suzack ; Beyond feminism : indigenous Ainu women and narratives of empowerment in Japan / Ann-Elise Lewallen -- Culture. Indigenous feminism, performance, and the politics of memory in the plays of Monique Mojica / Shari M. Huhndorf ; Memory alive : an inquiry into the uses of memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault ; 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 ; Painting the archive : the art of Jane Ash Poitras / Pamela McCallum ; Our lives will be different now : the indigenous feminist performances of Spiderwoman Theater / Katherine Young Evans ; Bordering on feminism : space, solidarity, and transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore's Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch ; Location, dislocation, relocation : shooting back with cameras / Patricia Demers.