Indigenous women and violence : feminist activist research in heightened states of injustice / edited by Lynn Stephen and Shannon Speed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Speed, Shannon, 1964- editor.

Stephen, Lynn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous women--Political activity--Mexico.

Indigenous women.

Indigenous women--Political activity--United States.

Indigenous women--Violence against--Guatemala.

Indigenous women--Violence against--Mexico.

Indigenous women--Violence against--United States.

Indigenous women--Political activity--Guatemala.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages : illustrations, maps)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [2021]

Summary:

"An intimate view of how inequality and deeply ingrained structural settler colonialism build accumulated violences in the lives of indigenous women and how these women resist"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

5. Confronting Gendered Embodied Structures of Violence: Mam Indigenous Women Seeking Justice in Guatemala and the United States / Lynn Stephen

6. Gender-Territorial Justice and the "War Against Life": Anticolonial Road Maps in Mexico / Mariana Mora

7. Ethical Tribunals and Gendered Violence in Guatemala's Armed Conflict / Morna Macleod

8. SOVERYEMPTY narrative DeneNde poetics in walled homelands / Margo Tamez

Epilogue: Indigenous Women and Violence in the Time of Coronavirus / Lynn Stephen and Shannon Speed

Contributors

Index

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Indigenous Women and Violence / Shannon Speed and Lynn Stephen

1. Grief and an Indigenous Feminist's Rage: The Embodied Field of Knowledge Production / Shannon Speed

2. Prison as a Colonial Enclave: Incarcerated Indigenous Women Resisting Multiple Violence / R. Aída Hernández Castillo

3. Women Defenders and the Fight for Gender Justice in Indigenous Territories / María Teresa Sierra

4. The Case of Sepur Zarco and the Challenge to the Colonial State / Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-4262-7

0-8165-4296-1

OCLC:

1237401740