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Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Joanne Barker
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Description for Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Paperback. Editor(s): Barker, Joanne. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFSJ5; JFSK2; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of Indianness, and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government's criminalization of traditional forms of Dine marriage and sexuality, the Inupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity ... Read more
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of Indianness, and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government's criminalization of traditional forms of Dine marriage and sexuality, the Inupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363651
SKU
V9780822363651
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About Joanne Barker
Joanne Barker is Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, the author of Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination.
Reviews for Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
For those of us seeking to grow our equity work in educational settings, reading essays like those in this collection allow us to privilege-check our own approaches. The denseness of the material aside, each piece acts as a motivator for equity work and as a reminder that this work cannot be done in a vacuum, and can never be complete ... Read more