Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Mothers of the nations : indigenous mothering as global resistance, reclaiming and recovery / edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Kim Anderson.
  
•    
• Other Contributors/Collections:Anderson, Kim, 1964- editor.
  Lavell-Harvard, D. Memee (Dawn Memee), 1974- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, 2014.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ759 .M928 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ759 .M928 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Motherhood.
  Mothers--Social conditions.
  Indigenous women--Social conditions.
  
• Description:vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"The voices of Indigenous women world-wide have long been silenced by colonial oppression and institutions of patriarchal dominance. Recent generations of powerful Indigenous women have begun speaking out so that their positions of respect within their families and communities might be reclaimed. The book explores issues surrounding and impacting Indigenous mothering, family and community in a variety of contexts internationally. The book addresses diverse subjects, including child welfare, Indigenous mothering in curriculum, mothers and traditional foods, intergenerational mothering in the wake of residential schooling, mothering and HIV, urban Indigenous mothering, mothers working the sex trade, adoptive and other mothers, Indigenous midwifery, and more. In addressing these diverse subjects and peoples living in North America, Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Philippines and Oceania, the authors provide a forum to understand the shared interests of Indigenous women across the globe.
  Mothers of the Nations, edited by Kim Anderson and Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard is wonderfully written and captures your attention from start to finish. The stories that Drs. Anderson and Lavell-Harvard weave together from around the world are poignant, inspiring, perhaps most importantly, timely. Indigenous women, in particular, are reclaiming their indigeneity - many through birthing and mothering practices. This book is extremely diverse and will speak to readers on many levels. I highly recommend it not only for students but for anyone who is interested in understanding what decolonization looks like for Indigenous women, our families and communities."--Pub. desc.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781927335451 (pbk.)
  1927335450 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:The meaning of motherhood among the Kabyle Berber, Indigenous People of North Africa
  "We practically lived off the land": Generational changes in food acquisition patterns among First Nations mothers and grandmothers
  Risk and resistance: Creating maternal risk through imposed biomedical 'safety' in the post-colonial Indigenous Philippines
  Indigenous midwifery as an expression of sovereignty
  Stories of mothers living with HIV+ in Kibera, a mega-slum in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Towards the wellbeing of Aboriginal mothers and their families: You can't mandate time
  The impact of sexual violence on Indigenous motherhood in Guatemala
  Camera, a collective, and a critical concern: Feminist research aimed at capturing new images of Aboriginal motherhood
  Storying the untold: Indigenous motherhood and street sex work
  Motherhood, policies and tea
  The power of ancestral stories on mothers & daughters
  Rebirth and renewal: Finding empowerment through Indigenous women's literature
  Māori mothering: Repression, resistance and renaissance
  Nimâmâsak: The legacy of First Nations women honouring mothers and motherhood
  Indigenous principles for single mothering in a fragmented world
  Growing up: A dialogue between Kim Anderson and Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard on personal and professional evolutions in Indigenous mothering.