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Conquest : Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide /

"In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence -- perpetrated by the state and by society at large -- and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Andrea, 1966- (Author)
Other Authors: LaDuke, Winona
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Durham, NC] : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sexual violence as a tool of genocide
  • Boarding school abuses and the case for reparations
  • Rape of the land
  • "Better dead than pregnant" : the colonization of Native womens' reproductive health
  • "Natural laboratories" : medical experimentation in Native communities
  • Spiritual appropriation as sexual violence
  • Anticolonial responses to gender violence
  • U.S. empire and the war against Native sovereignty
  • Endnotes
  • Resource guide
  • Index.