AMIN3409: Indigenous Women of Turtle Island

This combined undergraduate and graduate course provides an interdisciplinary mechanism for exploring Indigenous feminist and queer Indigenous studies. Although the course title indicates a specific focus on women and their political, cultural and intellectual production, we will also explore Indigenous feminist and queer writings that raise critical questions about normative gender and sexuality?including the concept of ?womanhood.? We will explore the following topics: the relationship between mainstream feminism and Indigenous feminism; gender and sexual violence; settler colonialism and decolonization; law and restorative justice; sexuality; two-spirit, queer, and gender non-conforming subjectivities and politics; sexual and reproductive health; activism; the environment, embodiment, and materialisms; culture and tradition; erotics; biopolitics; Indigenous epistemologies; and sovereignty and governance.

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