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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
Hardback. 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 Diné marriage and sexuality, the Iñupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they ... 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 Diné marriage and sexuality, the Iñupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363392
SKU
V9780822363392
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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
“Critically Sovereign is not only a necessary reading for those studying Indigenous politics, it should also be considered a required reading for scholars and activists who study race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and colonialism.”
Brionca Taylor
Gender & Society
"Through a collective of brilliant voices, the essays in this book grapple with the significance of gender, ... Read more
Brionca Taylor
Gender & Society
"Through a collective of brilliant voices, the essays in this book grapple with the significance of gender, ... Read more