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A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood

Autor Kim Anderson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2001
How are Native women defined? How has this sense of identity been influenced by European culture, and how have negative images been resisted? These are only a few of the questions Cree/Metis writer Kim Anderson addresses in this important book based on interviews with forty Native women from across Canada.Starting from the role of women in Indigenous societies prior to the arrival of Europeans, Anderson explores how female identity and power were systematically dismantled through colonization. Drawing on their own experiences, Native women describe how they are reclaiming their cultural traditions and creating positive and powerful images of themselves with are true to their heritage.A Recognition of Being is a critical and inspiring history of Native womanhood.Features:
  • based on interviews with forty Aboriginal women from across Canada and the author's own personal journey as a Native woman
  • explores the central question of how Aboriginal women maintain power and construct a positive knowledge of the self
  • contributes to a growing body of scholarship on Indigenous women's resistance to oppression
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781894549127
ISBN-10: 1894549120
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 171 x 247 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Sumach Press
Colecția Sumach Press (CA)

Recenzii

"Approaching issues of gender and identity, A Recognition of Being gives life and voice to the experiences of Aboriginal women. Ms. Anderson writes beautifully and respectfully about issues and challenges that face Aboriginal women and our communities. The stories and analysis allow us the opportunity to consider potential pathways to individual and collective freedom. This book is a must read."-- Patricia Montrue-Angus (Mohawk), Professor of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I. SETTING OUT

Chapter 1: Story of the Storyteller
Chapter 2: Working with Notions of Tradition and Culture
Chapter 3: Literary and Oral Resources

II. LOOKING BACK: THE COLONIZATION OF NATIVE WOMANHOOD

Chapter 4: The Dismantling of Gender Equity
Chapter 5: Marriage, Divorce and Family Life
Chapter 6: The Construction of a Negative Identity

III. RESIST

Chapter 7: Foundations of Resistance
Chapter 8: Acts of Resistance
Chapter 9: Attitudes of Resistance

IV. RECLAIM

Chapter 10: Our Human Relations
Chapter 11: Relating to Creation

V. CONSTRUCT

Chapter 12: The Individual
Chpater 13: Family
Chapter 14: Community and Nation
Chapter 15: Creation

VI. ACT

Chapter 16: Nurturing the Self
Chapter 17: Nurturing the Future

VII. PAUSE/REFLECT

CONCLUDING DIALOGUE: Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence

Reference List and Participant Biographies
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index