Critically Sovereign Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

Editor: Joanne Barker Contributor(s): Jessica Bissett Perea, Jodi A. Byrd, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Mishuana Goeman, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Melissa Nelson, Mark Rifkin Pages: 288  Illustrations: 5 Published: April 2017 Duke University Press Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of “Indianness,” and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government’s criminalization of traditional forms of Diné marriage and sexuality, the Iñupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they embrace the processes of globalizatio