Mothers of the nations : Indigenous mothering as global resistance, reclaiming and recovery

Mothers of the nations : Indigenous mothering as global resistance, reclaiming and recovery / edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Kim Anderson.

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...

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Other Authors: Anderson, Kim, 1964- (Editor), Lavell-Harvard, D. Memee (Dawn Memee), 1974- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Motherhood.
Mothers > Social conditions.
Indigenous women > Social conditions.
maternity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Motherhood
Mothers > Social conditions
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Indigenous mothering perspectives / D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Kim Anderson
  • I: Healthy beginnings. The meaning of motherhood among the Kabyle Berber, Indigenous People of North Africa / Malika Grasshoff/MAKILAM ; "We practically lived off the land" : generational changes in food acquisition patterns among First Nations mothers and grandmothers / Hannah Tait Neufeld ; Risk and resistance : creating maternal risk through imposed biomedical "safety" in the post-colonial Indigenous Philippines / Paul Kadetz ; Indigenous midwifery as an expression of sovereignty / Rebeka Tabobondung, Sara Wolfe, Janet Smylie, Laura Senese, and Genevieve Blais
  • II: Voicing resilience. Stories of mothers living with HIV+ in Kibera, a mega-slum in Sub-Saharan Africa / Samaya Van Tyler ; Towards the wellbeing of Aboriginal mothers and their families : you can't mandate time / Cyndy Baskin and Bela McPherson ; The impact of sexual violence on Indigenous motherhood in Guatemala / Kirthi Jayakumar ; Camera, a collective, and a critical concern : feminist research aimed at capturing new images of Aboriginal motherhood / Mary Anderson
  • III: Othermothering spaces and multiple moms. Storying the untold : Indigenous motherhood and street sex work / Sinéad Charbonneau, Robina Thomas, Caitlin Janzen, Jeannine Carrière, Susan Strega and Leslie Brown ; Motherhood, policies and tea / Wendy Proverbs ; The power of ancestral stories on mothers & daughters / Stephanie A. Sellars ; Rebirth and renewal : finding empowerment through Indigenous women's literature / Jennifer Brant
  • IV: Building on the past to create a future. Māori mothering : repression, resistance and renaissance / Helene Connor ; Nimâmâsak : the legacy of First Nations women honouring mothers and motherhood / Lorena Fontaine, Lisa Forbes, Wendy McNab, Lisa Murdock and Roberta Stout ; Indigenous principles for single mothering in a fragmented world / Dawn Marsden ; Growing up : a dialogue between Kim Anderson and Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard on personal and professional evolutions in Indigenous mothering / Kim Anderson and Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard.

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