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Indigenous Women's Reproductive Traditions : Reclaiming Sovereignty Through 500 Years of Colonization.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- A. Sellers, Stephanie.
- Series:
- Gender Studies
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lived Places Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- Unveiling Indigenous reproductive traditions, resilience, and the fight for ancestral rights.
- Contents:
- FrontCover
- Half-Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Information
- Abstract
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Learning objectives
- Introduction
- Addressing the information gaps
- 1 Since the beginning of time: Indigenous divine creatrixes and Gender Complementary civilizations
- European settlers' culture stories
- Eurosettler culture stories in practice
- Non-Indigenous Mother Goddess cultures
- Influence of European witchcraze on settlers
- Gender Complementary social structure
- A different perspective on gender binary
- Some Indigenous origin stories
- Sky Woman of the Haudenosaunee and other Eastern Woodlands nations
- Copper Woman of First Nations of the Pacific Northwest
- Changing Woman of the Diné (Navajo) nation
- Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA+) deities
- Other Indigenous divine creatrixes
- The issue of Indigenous matriarchies
- Not Indigenous fertility cults
- Summary
- 2 Indigenous female sexuality, menstruation, reproduction, and motherhood
- Menarche and menstrual rituals
- Indigenous menstrual practices: A study of a few nations
- The Ojibwe Berry Fast
- The Navajo (Diné) Kinaalda
- The Lakota Ishna Ta Awi Cha Lowan ritual
- Indigenous marriages and family systems
- Indigenous women's sexuality and reproduction before colonization
- Reproductive autonomy and birth control practices
- 3 What happened? How gendered colonial strategies targeted Indigenous women's bodily sovereignty and harmed the nations
- Attacks on Indigenous women's leadership and sovereignty
- Indian boarding schools and cultural disruption
- Forced sterilizations and reproductive coercion
- Environmental violence and extractive industries
- Contemporary challenges to sovereignty and reproductive justice
- Native women's leadership and barriers from within Native nations
- Summary.
- 4 Stealing back the thunder: Indigenous communities decolonizing reproduction and motherhood
- Indigenous feminisms
- Mainstream American feminism and Indigenous feminisms
- Indigenous motherhood as anti-colonial political power
- Statistics and Indigenous organizations for Native women's reproductive health
- 5 Final thoughts
- Notes
- Recommended projects &
- discussion questions
- Bibliography
- About the author
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-917503-59-8
- 1-917503-58-X
- OCLC:
- 1564377060
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