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Indigenous Women and Feminism
Politics, Activism, Culture
Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed by mainstream feminism? Indigenous Women and Feminism 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.
Through the lenses of politics, activism, and culture, this wide-ranging collection crosses disciplinary, national, academic, and activist boundaries to explore deeply the unique political and social positions of Indigenous women. A vital and sophisticated discussion, these timely essays will change the way we think about modern feminism and Indigenous women.
344 pages | © 2010
Table of Contents
Indigenous 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 Belmo