Forbidden fruit
Subtitle: engaging an Indigenous feminist lens as an Nehinaw Iskwew
By: Marlene E. MfdcKay, PhD
Publisher: JCharlton Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Vernon, British Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781926476254
Subjects: Indigenous women; Social conditions; Feminism; Sex discrimination against women
Description: "Forbidden Fruit: Engaging an Indigenous Feminist Lens as an Neninaw Iskwew is a feminist based memoir acknowledging that people are measured, categorized, and placed in a hierarchal order that is deeply influenced by discourses predicated upon social processes. Dr. McKay's Indigenous feminism is about being aware that due to the colonial patriarchy that has seeped through Indigenous social and cultural systems, Indigenous women are positioned differently in economic, social and political structures. Marlene masterfully uses her own life experiences to assert that colonialism and Indigenous cultures obscure the role of women in a way that continues both their marginalization and the binary of the princess/squaw (p. 11)."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-98).