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WGS 480

Indigenous Feminisms

3 units

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Indigenous Womxn

Readings

  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black
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  • Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing
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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

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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 2
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  • Kovach, M. (2015). “Emerging from the margins: Indigenous methodologies.” In Strega, S. &
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  • Brown, L. (Eds.) Research as Resistance, 2nd Edition: Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches (43-64). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars' Press. eBook
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  • 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
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  • Rigney, L. (1999). "Internationalization of an Indigenous Anticolonial Cultural Critique of Research Methodologies.” In Wicazo Sa Review, 14:2, p. 109-121
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 3
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  • Barker, J. (2015). “Indigenous Feminisms.” The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous People's Politics
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  • Ross, L. (2009). “From the ‘F’ Word to Indigenous/Feminisms.” Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Native Feminism, pp. 39-52
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 4
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  • Flowers, R. (2015). “Refusal to forgive: Indigenous women’s love and rage.” Decolonization:
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  • Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 32-49
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  • Simpson, A. (2009). “Captivating Eunice: Membership, Colonialism, and Gendered Citizenships of Grief.” Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Native Feminism, pp. 105-129
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  • Arvin, M. et al. (2013). “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy.” Feminist Formations, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 8-34
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 5
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  • Hill, S. M. (2017). The clay
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  • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, University of Manitoba Press. Chapter 1 and 2, pp. 13-76
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Hunt, S. (2015). “Representing Colonial Violence: Trafficking, Sex Work, and the Violence of Law.” Atlantis 37.2 (1), pp. 25-39
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 6 and 7
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 8, 9, and 10
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  • 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
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  • Scudeler, J. (2015). “‘Indians on Top’: Kent Monkman’s Sovereign Erotics.” American Indian Research and Culture Journal 39, no. 4, pp. 19-32
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 11 and 14
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  • Hooks, Bell. (2002). Communion: The Female Search for Love. Harper Collins: New York, New York. Chapter 5
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  • Starblanket, Gina. (2024). Making space for Indigenous Feminism: Third Edition. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing. Chapter 12 and 13
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  • 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
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  • Venne, Sharon H. "Understanding Treaty 6: An Indigenous Perspective." Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada. Ed. Asch, Michael. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998
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  • Oulette, Grace (2002). “The Fourth World of Aboriginal Women.” In The Fourth World of Aboriginal Women, pp. 85-94
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