Conquest : Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
ISBN: 9780896087439 | 0896087433
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 5/30/2005
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A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In Conquest, Smith places Native American women at the center of her analysis of sexual violence, challenging both conventional definitions of the term and conventional responses to the problem. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boardin... MORE
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| Foreword by Winona LaDuke | ix | ||
| Introduction | 1 | (6) | |
| Chapter 1 Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide | 7 | (28) | |
| Chapter 2 Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations | ... MORE | (20) | |
| Chapter 3 Rape of the Land | 55 | (24) | |
| Chapter 4 "Better Dead than Pregnant:" The Colonization of Native Womens' Reproductive Health | 79 | (30) | |
| Chapter 5 "Natural Laboratories:" Medical Experimentation in Native Communities | 109 | (10) | |
| Chapter 6 Spiritual Appropriation as Sexual Violence | 119 | (18) | |
| Chapter 7 Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence | 137 | (40) | |
| Chapter 8 U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty | 177 | (16) | |
| Endnotes | 193 | (30) | |
| Resource Guide | 223 | (8) | |
| Index | 231 |
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