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Making space for Indigenous feminism / edited by Joyce Green.

Green, Joyce A. (Joyce Audry), 1956- (editor.).

Summary:

"The 2007 first edition of this book proposed that Indigenous feminism was a valid and indeed essential theoretical and activist position, and introduced a roster of important Indigenous feminist contributors. The book has been well received nationally and internationally. It has been deployed in Indigenous Studies, Law, Political Science, and Women and Gender Studies in universities and appears on a number of doctoral comprehensive exam reading lists. The second edition, Making More Space, builds on the success of its predecessor, but is not merely a reiteration of it. Some chapters from the first edition are largely revised. A majority of the chapters are new, written for the second edition by important new scholars and activists. The second edition is more confident and less diffident about making the case for Indigenous feminism and in deploying a feminist analysis. The chapters cover issues that are relevant to some of the most important issues facing Indigenous people--violence against women, recovery of Indigenous self-determination, racism, misogyny, and decolonisation. Specifically, new chapters deal with Indigenous resurgence, feminism amongst the Sami and in Aboriginal Australia, neoliberal restructuring in Oaxaca, Canada's settler racism and sexism, and missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781552668832
ISBN: 1552668835
Physical Description: xvi, 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Black Point, Nova Scotia ; Fernwood Publishing, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Taking account of indigenous feminism / Joyce Green -- Being indigenous feminists: resurgences against contemporary patriarchy / Gina Starblanket -- Feminsim is for everybody: Aboriginal women, feminism and diversity / Verna St. Denis -- My hometown: Northern Canada, South Africa / Emma LaRocque -- Being an indigenous woman is a "a high risk lifestyle" / Mary Eberts -- Politics of gendered violence in indigenous communities / Rauna Kuokkanen -- Métis and feminist: contemplations on feminism, human rights, culture and decolonization / Emma LaRocque -- Deploying and disputing Aboriginal feminism in Australia / Megan Davis -- Rebalancing strategies: Aboriginal women and constitutional rights in Canada / Joyce Green -- Spare a thought for Métis women elders: illness and poverty in elderhood / Diedre A. Desmarais -- The State is not a saviour: indigenous law, gender and the neoliberal State in Oaxaca / Isabel Altimerano-Jimenez -- "Empowerment, revolution and real change": an interview with Fay Blaney / Fay Blaney and Sam Grey -- Perpetual state of violence: an indigenous feminist anti-oppression inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls / Robyn Bourgeois -- Looking back, still looking forward / Shirley Green -- Colleen Glenn: a Mètis feminist on Indian rights for Indian women / Colleen Glenn with Joyce Green -- Culturing politics and politicizing culture / Shirley Bear -- Long way from home / Emma LaRocque.