Conquest : sexual violence and American Indian genocide / Andrea Smith ; [foreword by Winona LaDuke].
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780822360384
- E98.W8 S6223 2005
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المكتبة الرئيسية الطابق الثالث أ | E98.W8S6223 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0001000012352 |
Foreword statement of responsibility from cover.
Republished by Duke University Press, 2015.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-221)
Sexual violence as a tool of genocide -- Boarding school abuses and the case for reparations -- Rape of the land -- "Better dead than pregnant" : the colonization of Native womens' reproductive health -- "Natural laboratories" : medical experimentation in Native communities -- Spiritual appropriation as sexual violence -- Anticolonial responses to gender violence -- U.S. empire and the war against Native sovereignty -- Endnotes -- Resource guide -- Index.
"In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence -- perpetrated by the state and by society at large -- and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women -- the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence"--Back cover.
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