Five Challenges to Native Feminist Theories

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This factsheet distills Arvin, Tuck and Morrill's work on Native feminist theories which look at the connections between settler colonialism, heteropaternalism and heteropatriarchy and how these interact with gender, race, indigeneity, sexuality, and nation. Settler scholars are welcomed to engage with these theories in meaningful ways, acknowledging that the issues faced by Indigenous women are inextricable from those issues faced by all Indigenous Peoples.

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References

Arvin, M., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A. (2013). Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections Between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy. Feminist Formations, 25(1), 8–34. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2013.0006

Source Authors

Arvin, M., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A.

Keywords

Decolonization, Dispossession of Indigenous Land, Divest Academia from Colonization, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Goal Reassessment, Gender, Heteropaternalism, Heteropatriarchy, Impermanence of the Nation-State, Indigeneity, Indigenous Futurities, Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Womanhood, Interrelatedness, Nation, Native Feminist Theories, Non-Indigenous Scholars, People-Possessed Indigenous Future, Race, Racial Hierarchy, Settler Colonialism, Sexuality, Teach Current Struggles, Whitestream Feminism, Women's Studies

Themes

Decolonization