Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

By Joyce Green

Subjects: Indigenous women -- Social conditions, Femmes autochtones, Feminists, Biography, Femmes, Femmes autochtones -- Activité politique, Conditions sociales, Dones indígenes, Biographies, Droits, Féminisme, Femmes autochtones -- Canada -- Conditions sociales, Féminisme, Indigenous women, Indigenous women -- Biography, Indigenous women -- Canada -- Social conditions, Political activity, Activists, Indigenous women -- Canada -- Biography, Activitat política, Women, political activity, Dones, Feminism, Activité politique, Femmes autochtones -- Conditions sociales, Women political activists, Feminisme, Indigenous women -- Political activity -- Canada, Women's Rights, Féministes -- Biographies, Femmes autochtones -- Canada -- Biographies, Indigenous peoples, Femmes autochtones -- Biographies, Social conditions, Féministes, Women's rights, Femmes -- Droits, Native women, Feminists -- Biography, Indigenous women -- Political activity, Femmes activistes, Femmes autochtones -- Activité politique -- Canada

Description: "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.