The Beginning and End of Rape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beginning and End of Rape write by Sarah Deer. This book was released on 2015-11-01. The Beginning and End of Rape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it. The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer, who played a crucial role in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse. Deer provides a clear historical overview of rape and sex trafficking in North America, paying particular attention to the gendered legacy of colonialism in tribal nations—a truth largely overlooked or minimized by Native and non-Native observers. She faces this legacy directly, articulating strategies for Native communities and tribal nations seeking redress. In a damning critique of federal law that has accommodated rape by destroying tribal legal systems, she describes how tribal self-determination efforts of the twenty-first century can be leveraged to eradicate violence against women. Her work bridges the gap between Indian law and feminist thinking by explaining how intersectional approaches are vital to addressing the rape of Native women. Grounded in historical, cultural, and legal realities, both Native and non-Native, these essays point to the possibility of actual and positive change in a world where Native women are systematically undervalued, left unprotected, and hurt. Deer draws on her extensive experiences in advocacy and activism to present specific, practical recommendations and plans of action for making the world safer for all.
Sharing Our Stories of Survival
Sharing Our Stories of Survival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sharing Our Stories of Survival write by Sarah Deer. This book was released on 2008. Sharing Our Stories of Survival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sharing Our Stories of Survival is a comprehensive treatment of the socio-legal issues that arise in the context of violence against native women--written by social scientists, writers, poets, and survivors of violence.
Conquest
Conquest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquest write by Andrea Smith. This book was released on 2015-09-17. Conquest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women—the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.
Maze of Injustice
Maze of Injustice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maze of Injustice write by Amnesty International. This book was released on 2007. Maze of Injustice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they known they will be met with inaction or indifference. As one support worker said, "Women don't report because it doesn't make a difference. Why report when you are just going to be revictimized?" Sexual violence against women is not only a criminal or social issue, it is a human rights abuse. This report unravels some of the reasons why Indigenous women in the USA are at such risk of sexual violence and why survivors are so frequently denied justice. Chronic under-resourcing of law enforcement and health services, confusion over jurisdiction, erosion of tribal authority, discrimination in law and practice, and indifference -- all these factors play a part. None of this is inevitable or irreversible. The voices of Indigenous women throughout this report send a message of courage and hope that change can and will happen.
Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes
Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes write by Jacqueline Agtuca. This book was released on 2014. Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A powerful presentation of the impact of colonization of American Indian tribes on the safety of Native American women and the changes to address such violence under the Violence Against Women Act. This essential reading reviews through the voices and experiences of Native women the systemic reforms under the Act to remove barriers to justice and their safety. It places the historic changes witnessed over the last twenty years under the Act in the context of the tribal grassroots movement for safety of Native women. Legal practitioners, students and social justice advocates will find this book a powerful and inspirational resource to creating a more just, humane, and safer world.
