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Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary » Read Now
by Gretchen M. Bataille, Laurie Lisa. 400 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This A-Z reference contains 275 biographical entries on Native American women, past and present, from many different walks of life. Written by more than 70 contributors, most of whom are leading American Indian historians, the entries examine the complex and diverse roles of Native American women in...
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This A-Z reference contains 275 biographical entries on Native American women, past and present, from many different walks of life. Written by more than 70 contributors, most of whom are leading American Indian historians, the entries examine the complex and diverse roles of Native American women in contemporary and traditional cultures. This new edition contains 32 new entries and updated end-of-article bibliographies. Appendices list entries by area of woman's specialization, state of birth, and tribe; also includes photos and a comprehensive index.
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Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism » Read Now
by Devon Abbott Mihesuah. 246 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives » Read Now
by Gretchen M. Bataille, Kathleen Mullen Sands. 212 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West (Chap. 3 "Indigenous Women") » Read Now
by Anne M. Butler, Ona Siporin. 142 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Changing Woman: A History of Racial Ethnic Women in Modern America (Chap. 2 "American Indian Women and Cultural Conflict") » Read Now
by Karen Anderson. 294 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

While great strides have been made in documenting discrimination against women in America, our awareness of discrimination is due in large part to the efforts of a feminist movement dominated by middle-class white women, and is skewed to their experiences. Yet discrimination against racial ethnic...
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While great strides have been made in documenting discrimination against women in America, our awareness of discrimination is due in large part to the efforts of a feminist movement dominated by middle-class white women, and is skewed to their experiences. Yet discrimination against racial ethnic women is in fact dramatically different--more complex and more widespread--and without a window into the lives of racial ethnic women our understanding of the full extent of discrimination against all women in America will be woefully inadequate. Now, in this illuminating volume, Karen Anderson offers the first book to examine the lives of women in the three main ethnic groups in the United States--Native American, Mexican American, and African American women--revealing the many ways in which these groups have suffered oppression, and the profound effects it has had on their lives. Here is a thought-provoking examination of the history of racial ethnic women, one which provides not only insight into their lives, but also a broader perception of the history, politics, and culture of the United States. For instance, Anderson examines the clash between Native American tribes and the U.S. government (particularly in the plains and in the West) and shows how the forced acculturation of Indian women caused the abandonment of traditional cultural values and roles (in many tribes, women held positions of power which they had to relinquish), subordination to and economic dependence on their husbands, and the loss of meaningful authority over their children. Ultimately, Indian women were forced into the labor market, the extended family was destroyed, and tribes were dispersed from the reservation and into the mainstream--all of which dramatically altered the woman's place in white society and within their own tribes. The book examines Mexican-American women, revealing that since U.S. job recruiters in Mexico have historically focused mostly on low-wage male workers, Mexicans have constituted a disproportionate number of the illegals entering the states, placing them in a highly vulnerable position. And even though Mexican-American women have in many instances achieved a measure of economic success, in their families they are still subject to constraints on their social and political autonomy at the hands of their husbands. And finally, Anderson cites a wealth of evidence to demonstrate that, in the years since World War II, African-American women have experienced dramatic changes in their social positions and political roles, and that the migration to large urban areas in the North simply heightened the conflict between homemaker and breadwinner already thrust upon them. Changing Woman provides the first history of women within each racial ethnic group, tracing the meager progress they have made right up to the present. Indeed, Anderson concludes that while white middle-class women have made strides toward liberation from male domination, women of color have not yet found, in feminism, any political remedy to their problems.
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Women's Rights in Native North America: Legal Mobilization in the U. S. and Canada » Read Now
by Judith H. Aks. 241 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Tribal Courts' Failure to Protect Native American Women: A Reevaluation of the Indian Civil Rights Act, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now
by Carla Christofferson. 16 pgs.

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Developing Self-Esteem and Leadership Skills in Native American Women: The Role Sports and Games Play, in JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance » Read Now
by Janice Jones Schroeder. 3 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Cross-Cultural Communication and Aging in the United States (Chap. 9 "The Dilemma of Oklahoma Native American Women Elders: Traditional Roles and Sociocultural Roles") » Read Now
by Hana S. Noor Al-Deen. 257 pgs.

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Combining three elements - communication, ageing and culture - all of which have an increasingly profound impact on today's multicultural society, this text focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures.
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Bringing Cultural Diversity to Feminist Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice (Chap. 10 "American Indian Women and Psychology") » Read Now
by Hope Landrine. 465 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Leaders in feminist psychology have increasingly stressed the need to pay greater attention to cultural diversity among women and to integrate this awareness into teaching, theory building, research, and practice. This book responds by focusing on the empirical and practice based implications of...
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Leaders in feminist psychology have increasingly stressed the need to pay greater attention to cultural diversity among women and to integrate this awareness into teaching, theory building, research, and practice. This book responds by focusing on the empirical and practice based implications of recognizing such diversity in the psychology of women. Areas explored include child development and gender socialization, psychotherapy and clinical supervision, health psychology, and contemporary issues such as sexual harassment and pornography.
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Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas (Chap. 1 "Native American Women Artists") » Read Now
by Phoebe Farris. 502 pgs.

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Critical essays on 20th-century female artists of color focus on how these distinguised artists achieved success, what makes their work important--both to the art world and to their specific communities--and what influences their work is likely to have in the future. The artists are representative...
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Critical essays on 20th-century female artists of color focus on how these distinguised artists achieved success, what makes their work important--both to the art world and to their specific communities--and what influences their work is likely to have in the future. The artists are representative of four ethnic groups: African American, Asian Pacific American, Latin American, and Native American. Parallels drawn explore the similarities and differences among the artists. The early feminist art movement of the 1970s concentrated on gender with less consideration given to race or class, yet to many artists of color, ethnicity factors significantly into the shaping of their identities and to the content of their art. Women artists of color have expanded the scope of protest art, fusing the past and current history with gender and race and deconstructing stereotypical mainstream representations of their gender and ethnic identities. This presentation of artists balances older and deceased artists with the younger, emerging artists. The artistic mediums span the gamut from traditional painting and sculpture to newer forms such as video, conceptual, and performance art.
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Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS ("Native American Women and HIV/AIDS" begins on p. 37) » Read Now
by Irene S. Vernon. 147 pgs.

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