Aboriginal Studies - UBC Press - University of British Columbia

poliTics & naTion
indigenous women and feminism
Politics, Activism, Culture
edited by cheryl suzack, shari m. Huhndorf, Jeanne perreault, and Jean barman
cHeryl suzack is an assistant
professor at the University of
Toronto. sHari m. HuHndorf
is an associate professor at the
University of Oregon. Jeanne
perreaulT is a professor and
associate head at the University
of Calgary. Jean barman
is professor emeritus at the
University of British Columbia.
conTribuTors: Kim Anderson,
Jean Barman, Laura Donaldson,
Patricia Demers, Julia Emberley,
Katherine L.Y. Evans, Minnie Grey,
Patricia Hilden, Shari Huhndorf,
Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Leece M.
Lee, ann-elise lewallen, Pamela
McCallum, Jeanne Perreault,
Cheryl Suzack, Rebecca Tsosie,
and Teresa Zackodnik
October 2010
978-0-7748-1807-0 Hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1808-7 pb $34.95
296 pages, 6 x 9"
8 b&w photographs, 2 tables
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Women’s Studies
Taking up a range of topics related to indigenous
politics, activism, and culture, this volume makes
a strong contribution to the debates surrounding
indigenous feminist theories and practices.
Indigenous feminism has often been subsumed
within the categories of women of colour and
postcolonial feminism, but in truth it goes beyond
these constructs to engage in crucial issues of
cultural identity, nationalism, and decolonization.
This collection looks at developments in indigenous
feminist culture, activism, and politics to explore
how indigenous women are creating a space
within feminism specific to their interests.
conTenTs
Introduction: Indigenous Feminism
– Theorizing the Issues
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
2 Native Women and Leadership: An
Ethics of Culture and Relationship
3 “But we are your mothers, you are our
sons”: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation
in Early Cherokee Women’s Writing
4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project
part 2: activism
5 Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist
6 Indigenous Feminism on the Cusp of Contact
7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalitional Feminism:
Anna Julia Cooper’s “Women versus the Indian”
8 Emotion before the Law
9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women
and Narratives of Empowerment in Japan
part 3: culture
10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the
Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica
11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses
of Memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette
Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo
12 Race, Gender, and Representational Violence
in Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen
Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras
14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous
Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater
15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and
Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil
16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation:
Shooting Back with Cameras
Index
8 Aboriginal Studies 2010 order online: www.ubcpress.ca