Reading Native American Women
Critical/Creative Representations
Contributions by Joanne Barker, Gloria Bird, Victoria Bomberry, Mary C. Churchill, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Carolyn Dunn, Reid Gómez, Janice Gould, Joy Harjo, Deborah A. Miranda, Luana Ross, Andrea Smith, Inés Talamantez, Teresia Teaiwa, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie Edited by Inés Hernández-Avila
Publication date:
14 July 2005Length of book:
288 pagesPublisher
AltaMira PressDimensions:
235x169mm7x9"
ISBN-13: 9780759103719
This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss the points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. Individual contributors articulate their positions around issues such as identity, community, sovereignty, culture, and representation. This engaging volume crystallizes the myriad realities that inform the authors' intellectual work, and clarifies the sources of inspiration for their roles as individuals and indigenous intellectuals, reaffirming their paramount commitment to their communities and Nations. It will be of great value to Native writers as well as instructors and students in Native American studies, women's studies, anthropology, cultural studies, literature, and writing and composition.
It seems to me that being an American Indian woman makes one a feminist. That is, if a commitment to strength, both of body and spirit, to self-reliance, and to a sense of identity outside the male world (albeit always within one's Indian community) makes one a feminist—and I think it does—then Indian woman and feminist are synonyms. Reading Native American Women is a collection that powerfully makes my point. Kudos to Inés Hernández-Avila and the women who speak with as strong a voice as ever.