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• Title:A recognition of being : reconstructing Native womanhood / Kim Anderson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Anderson, Kim, 1964- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Women's Press, 2016.
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PW A53 R43 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Women--Identity.
  Indigenous Peoples--Discrimination--Women.
  Indigenous Peoples--Colonization.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Race discrimination--Canada.
  Sex discrimination against women--Canada.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--Ethnic identity.
  
• Subject(s): Indigenous Peoples--Resistance--Women.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xxviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:CSPI series in indigenous studies.
  
• Summary:"Over 15 years ago, Kim Anderson set out to explore how Indigenous womanhood had been constructed and reconstructed in Canada, weaving her own journey as a Cree/Métis woman with the insights, knowledge, and stories of the forty Indigenous women she interviewed. The result was A Recognition of Being, a powerful work that identified both the painful legacy of colonialism and the vital potential of self-definition. In this second edition, Anderson revisits her groundbreaking text to include recent literature on Indigenous feminism and two-spirited theory and to document the efforts of Indigenous women to resist heteropatriarchy. Beginning with a look at the positions of women in traditional Indigenous societies and their status after colonization, this text shows how Indigenous women have since resisted imposed roles, reclaimed their traditions, and reconstructed a powerful Native womanhood. Featuring a new foreword by Maria Campbell and an updated closing dialogue with Bonita Lawrence, this revised edition will be a vital text for courses in women and gender studies and Indigenous studies as well as an important resource for anyone committed to the process of decolonization."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Local note:First Nations author.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780889615793 (paperback)
  0889615799 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Otaynak / Maria Campbell
  Part I: Setting out
  1. Story of the storyteller
  2. Working with notions of tradition and culture
  3. Literary and oral resources
  Part II: Looking back: the colonization of Native womanhood
  4. The dismantling of gender equality
  5. Marriage, divorce, and family life
  6. The construction of a negative identity
  Part III: Resist
  7. Foundations of resistance
  8. Acts of resistance
  9. Attitudes of resistance
  Part IV: Reclaim
  10. Our human relations
  11. Relating to creation
  Part V: Construct
  12. The individual
  13. Family
  14. Community and nation
  15. Creation
  Part VI: Act
  16. Nurturing self
  17. Nurturing the future
  Part VII: Pause / reflect
  Concluding dialogue / Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence
  Participant biographies.