Indigenous Women and Feminism

Politics, Activism, Culture

Edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman
Categories: Political Science, History, Canadian History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Indigenous Studies, Women’s Studies
Series: Women and Indigenous Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774818070, 344 pages, November 2010
Paperback : 9780774818087, 344 pages, July 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774818094, 344 pages, January 2011
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774859677, 344 pages, October 2022
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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 Belmore’s Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch

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

Index

A groundbreaking introduction to Indigenous feminism that explores its powerful potential to change the way we think about modern feminism in Indigenous contexts.

Description

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.

Awards

  • Winner, Outstanding Scholarship Prize, Canadian Women’s Studies Association 2012

Reviews

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, <EM>The Goose</EM>, Issue 10, 2012