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Indigenous Women and Feminism

Politics, Activism, Culture

Edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault and Jean Barman

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Series: Women and Indigenous Studies

Imprint: UBC Press

344 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 6 b&w photographs, 1 table

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9780774818087
Published: July 2011

£28.99

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Hardcover
9780774818070
Published: November 2010

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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.

Through the lenses of politics, activism, and culture, the questions at the heart of this collection – What is at stake in conceptualizing Indigenous feminism? How does feminism relate to Indigenous claims to land and sovereignty? What lessons can we learn from the past? How do Indigenous women engage ongoing violence and social and political marginalization? – cross 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.

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 Belmore's Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch

16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back with Cameras / Patricia Demers

Index

Cheryl Suzack is an assistant professor of English and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. Shari M. Huhndorf is a professor of ethnic studies and women's and gender studies at the University of Oregon. Jeanne Perreault is a professor in and associate head of the Department of English graduate program at the University of Calgary. Jean Barman is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia.

Contributors: Kim Anderson (Cree/Métis), Jean Barman, Patricia Demers, Laura E. Donaldson (Cherokee), Julia Emberley, Katherine Young Evans, Minnie Grey (Inuit), Patricia Penn Hilden (Nez Perce), Shari M. Huhndorf (Yup'ik), Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Leece M. Lee (Blackfeet), ann-elise lewallen, Pamela McCallum, Jeanne Perreault, Cheryl Suzack (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Tsosie (Yaqui), Teresa Zackodnik

A 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