WGS 480
Indigenous Feminisms
Fall 2026
Topics
- Indigenous Womxn
Readings
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black
- Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing
Winter 2025
Topics
- To engage in discussions relating to Indigenous womxn as a central force in community
- To have students evaluate critical issues regarding inequality and gender discrimination
Readings
- Green, R. (1975). The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture. The Massachusetts Review, Autumn, 1975, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 698-714
- Grande, S. (2003). “Whitestream Feminism and the Colonist Project: A Review of Contemporary Feminist Pedagogy and Praxis. Educational Theory, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 329-346
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 2
- Kovach, M. (2015). “Emerging from the margins: Indigenous methodologies.” In Strega, S. &
- Brown, L. (Eds.) Research as Resistance, 2nd Edition: Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches (43-64). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars' Press. eBook
- Moreton-Robinson, A. (2017). “Relationality: A key presupposition of an Indigenous social research paradigm.” In Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies. Edited by C. Andersen and J.M. O'Brien, pp. 69-77. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
- Rigney, L. (1999). "Internationalization of an Indigenous Anticolonial Cultural Critique of Research Methodologies.” In Wicazo Sa Review, 14:2, p. 109-121
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 3
- Barker, J. (2015). “Indigenous Feminisms.” The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous People's Politics
- Ross, L. (2009). “From the ‘F’ Word to Indigenous/Feminisms.” Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Native Feminism, pp. 39-52
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 4
- Flowers, R. (2015). “Refusal to forgive: Indigenous women’s love and rage.” Decolonization:
- Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 32-49
- Simpson, A. (2009). “Captivating Eunice: Membership, Colonialism, and Gendered Citizenships of Grief.” Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Native Feminism, pp. 105-129
- Arvin, M. et al. (2013). “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy.” Feminist Formations, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 8-34
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 5
- Hill, S. M. (2017). The clay
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, University of Manitoba Press. Chapter 1 and 2, pp. 13-76
- Horn-Miller, K. (2016). “Distortion and Healing: Finding Balance and a “Good Mind” Through the Rearticulation of Sky Woman’s Journey.” In Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place, pp. 19-29. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press
- Deer, S. (2009). “Decolonizing Rape Law: A Native Feminist Synthesis of Safety and Sovereignty.” Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Native Feminism, pp. 149-167
- Hunt, S. (2013). “Decolonizing Sex Work: Developing an Intersectional Indigenous Approach.” Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada, edited by Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love, pp. 82-100. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press
- Hunt, S. (2015). “Representing Colonial Violence: Trafficking, Sex Work, and the Violence of Law.” Atlantis 37.2 (1), pp. 25-39
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 6 and 7
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 8, 9, and 10
- Byrd, J. (2017). “Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of Transitive Native.” Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Edited by Joanne Barker, Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 207-227
- Scudeler, J. (2015). “‘Indians on Top’: Kent Monkman’s Sovereign Erotics.” American Indian Research and Culture Journal 39, no. 4, pp. 19-32
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 11 and 14
- Hooks, Bell. (2002). Communion: The Female Search for Love. Harper Collins: New York, New York. Chapter 5
- Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 12 and 13
- Wheeler, W. (2010). “Cree Intellectual Traditions in History.” In The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region. Edited by Alvin Finkle, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna, pp. 47-61. Edmonton, Alberta: Athabasca University Press
- Venne, Sharon H. "Understanding Treaty 6: An Indigenous Perspective." Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada. Ed. Asch, Michael. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998
- Oulette, Grace (2002). “The Fourth World of Aboriginal Women.” In The Fourth World of Aboriginal Women, pp. 85-94
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- WGS 480 INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS / DH 530 GSJ 598 - Combined Section · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- WGS 480 INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
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- 2022-Fall-WGS-480-SEMINAR-A1 ↗2022
- 2025-Winter-WGS-480-SEMINAR-B01 ↗2025
- 2026-Fall-WGS-480-SEMINAR-A01 ↗2026
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
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