Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism

Barker, Joanne

doi:10.2979/mer.2006.7.1.127

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“…The colonization of Canada, similar to colonizing processes elsewhere, changed Indigenous discourses and social structures related to gender in ways that were detrimental to Indigenous women. The Indian Act, introduced in 1876 and still in force today, instantiated and normalized European beliefs about men's superiority and women's inferiority (Barker, 2006). Under its terms, women were prohibited from participation in band politics until 1951.…”

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Never Innocent Victims

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Janzen

Morgan

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Violence Against Women

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Over the past decade, street sex workers and their families garnered considerable media attention through extensive coverage of disappeared and murdered women in Western Canada. The research presented here examines whether recent media accounts differ from past coverage given that families and friends of disappeared and unaccounted for women inserted themselves into media discussions and circulated alternative readings of their stories. We found that coverage was dominated by two discourses: Vermin-victim discourse demonstrates the tensions between historically dominant conceptualizations and more recent ideas promulgated by families; and risky lifestyle discourse is related to neo-liberal ideologies about personal choice and responsibility.

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Never Innocent Victims

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Morgan

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Violence Against Women

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“…Aboriginal men with this status who married out, on the other hand, did not lose their status and could even pass it on to their spouses (even if their wives were not Aboriginal). For many scholars, these sexist legislative provisions were justified by patriarchal conceptions of the family that held that the legal status of women and children should be determined by their husbands and fathers (Barker 2006; Kirk 2002; Lawrence 2003, 2004). 5…”

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Locating the Aboriginal Gender Gap: The Political Attitudes and Participation of Aboriginal Women in Canada

Harell

Panagos

2013

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“…Indigenous feminists are accused of being corrupted by "Western feminists" and male Indigenous leadership assumes that self-government will address women's concerns (Kuokkanen, 2012;Maracle, 2015). The Assembly of First Nations which was formerly the National Indian Brotherhood opposed Indigenous feminist activism as selfish individual interests which they believed should be subsumed into the collective agenda of sovereignty (Barker, 2006).…”

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Epistemic Injustice and Indigenous Women: Toward Centering Indigeneity in Social Work

Johnstone

Lee

2021

Affilia

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Using the theoretical framework of epistemic injustice articulated by philosopher Miranda Fricker as an analytic tool, we analyze recent victories of Indigenous feminist activism in gathering the stories of Indigenous women, challenging dominant meta-narratives and rewriting the herstory of Canada. We use the epistemic concept of the hermeneutic gap to consider the implications of this resistance in conjunction with the increased visibility of the intersectional positionality of Indigenous women. To illustrate our analysis, we focus on two case studies. Firstly, an individual perspective through the life journey of a feminist Anishinaabe Activist, Bridgett Perrier. Secondly, we conduct a systemic analysis of the recent Report on the National Inquiry into the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). We close with a discussion on how critical it is for social workers—especially non-Indigenous social workers—to relearn and document the meaning of the MMIWG issues. This includes recognizing Indigenous resistance, activism, and the newly formulated hermeneutic understandings that are emerging. Then, the final task is to apply these concepts to their practice and heed the calls to action which the report calls for.

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Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism

Cited by 42 publications

References 17 publications

Never Innocent Victims

Never Innocent Victims

Locating the Aboriginal Gender Gap: The Political Attitudes and Participation of Aboriginal Women in Canada

Epistemic Injustice and Indigenous Women: Toward Centering Indigeneity in Social Work

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