A Recognition of Being, 2nd Edition

ISBN-13: 9780889615793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 360 str.

Kim Anderson

Opis

Over 15 years ago, Kim Anderson set out to explore how Indigenous womanhood had been constructed and reconstructed in Canada, weaving her own journey as a Cree/Metis woman with the insights, knowledge, and stories of the forty Indigenous women she interviewed. The result was A Recognition of Being. In this second edition, Anderson revisits her groundbreaking text.

Spis treści

• Foreword, Maria Campbell
• Preface to the New Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: Setting Out
• Chapter 1: Story of the Storyteller
• Chapter 2: Working with Notions of Tradition and Culture
• Chapter 3: Literary and Oral Resources
• Part II: Looking Back: The Colonization Of Native Womanhood
• Chapter 4: The Dismantling of Gender Equity
• Chapter 5: Marriage, Divorce and Family Life
• Chapter 6: The Construction of a Negative Identity
• Part III: Resist
• Chapter 7: Foundations of Resistance
• Chapter 8: Acts of Resistance
• Chapter 9: Attitudes of Resistance
• Part IV: Reclaim
• Chapter 10: Our Human Relations
• Chapter 11: Relating to Creation
• Part V: Construct
• Chapter 12: The Individual
• Chapter 13: Family
• Chapter 14: Community and Nation
• Chapter 15: Creation
• Part VI: Act
• Chapter 16: Nurturing Self
• Chapter 17: Nurturing the Future
• Part VII: Pause/Reflect
• Concluding Dialogue, Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence
• Participant Biographies
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index