A Real Feminine Journey

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ID4052279
AuthorsN M Mithlo (0000-0001-9916-4977, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume19
IssueS1
Pages310-339
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeridians (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/15366936-8566023
OpenAlexW3119774059
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited23

Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied knowledge) and ideological (the interconnectedness of people, the earth, and culture) constructs enable communal paradigms rather than individualistic or gendered identities to rise to the fore. Given these parameters, how can the testimonies of native women's lives as artists inform debates of indigenous feminisms? Drawing from Native women artists' narratives, transnational feminist scholarship, and ethnographic and historical texts, the author demonstrates how indigenous communities become gendered communities as a result of colonialism

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ideology · Indigenous · Individualism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Sovereignty · Anthropology · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law

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