Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies by Joanne Barker


Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Title : Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
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ISBN : 0822363399
ISBN-10 : 9780822363392
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 288
Publication : Published April 28, 2017

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 embrace the processes of globalization, Hawai‘i’s same-sex marriage bill, and stories of Indigenous women falling in love with non-human beings such as animals, plants, and stars. Following the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism across these diverse historical and cultural contexts, the contributors question and reframe the thinking about Indigenous knowledge, nationhood, citizenship, history, identity, belonging, and the possibilities for a decolonial future.

Contributors. Jodi A. Byrd, Joanne Barker, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Mishuana Goeman,  J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Melissa K. Nelson, Jessica Bissett Perea, Mark Rifkin

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Reviews

  • Alok Vaid-Menon

    A powerful, bracing collection of indigenous criticism which unsettles some of the foundational paradigms of gender studies and feminism writ large. Each essay is so distinct and exceptional, but the overarching theme is a commitment to challenging how Eurocentric/patriarchal ideologies of gender, sexuality, kinship, and society come to be imposed and how this renders alternative indigenous cosmologies impossible and/or descriptive, never analytical.

  • Kelsey Ellis

    Read this book! Read this book!

    Review coming soon.

  • Why-why

    Wow. This book is AWESOME

    This ideas put forth in this book are so complex, & as each chapter has a different author the book as a whole does not have one singular voice, I have not been able to figure out how to explain this book adequately. Re-reading the cover page description for the book again now, I don't think it was able to do the book justice either. Much more than & in addition to what it says, this book is important to every one of us who is not quite perfectly "normal," i.e. every single one of us. Ugh, & so much more!!! A very significant read for anyone who likes to think :)

  • Alexandra

    A fascinating and eye opening collection of essays.

  • P C

    Overall an anthology that made me feel super seen & theorized sovereignty in fluid, expansive ways. The essays on solar storms & eco-erotics literally stunned me speechless.

  • Mills College Library

    970.004 C9348 2017