INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Lady Justice, Inuit, Lee Maracle

• School: McGill University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 200
• Professor: Allan Downey

Document Summary

Mary anne turpel - patriarchy and paternalism. Indigenous women and colonialism: re empowering indg women and colonization removed them from power colonial control in violence. Indigenous women"s access to sovereignty claim and civil rights article argument non-indg women fighting for equal status with men. Why would indigenous women want to be equal to o o o. Indigenous men idea remains controversial social problems of middle class white women. Indigenous feminism and mainstream feminism the double marginalization. Indigenous women are women - and they are indigenous gender roles are not indg gender roles - leadership, control, access disempowerment of indigenous confront indigenous women is critical internalization patriarchy dominates. Must talk about indg feminisms! complexity of indg feminism - the diversity of indg nations problem: distinct culturally, politically, - hard to have collective voice bc of diversity engagement in anti-colonial struggles common history of disempowerment through colonialism.