Research Catalog

Title

Conquest : sexual violence and American Indian genocide / Andrea Smith.

Author

Smith, Andrea, 1966-

Publication

• Cambridge, MA : South End Press, [2005]
• ©2005

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Details

Description

xviii, 246 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American 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 1990s 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 rap and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.

Subject

• Indian women > Crimes against > North America
• Indian women > Colonization > North America
• Indian women > North America > Social conditions
• Indians, Treatment of > North America > History
• Violence > North America
• Sex crimes
• Sex Offenses
• Indians, North American > history
• Women > psychology
• Racism
• Battered Women
• Native women > Crimes against
• Native women > Colonization
• Native women > Social conditions
• Indiennes d'Amérique, Crimes contre les > Amérique du Nord
• Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Colonisation > Amérique du Nord
• Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Conditions sociales
• Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Histoire
• Violence > Amérique du Nord
• Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Crimes contre > Amérique du Nord
• Violence sexuelle
• Femmes victimes de violence
• Indian women > Crimes against
• Indian women > Social conditions
• Indians, Treatment of
• Politics and government
• Race relations
• Violence
• Indigene Frau
• Vergewaltigung
• Sexueller Missbrauch
• Ausrottung
• Gewalt
• Indianer
• Sexualverhalten
• Soziale Situation
• Indianerin
• North America
• Indians
• Women
• Sex crimes
• Social relations
• Racism
• Colonialism
• Genocide
• International criminal law
• Iwi taketake
• North America > Race relations
• North America > Politics and government
• North America
• Amérique du Nord > Relations raciales
• Amérique du Nord > Politique et gouvernement
• Amérique du Nord
• Nordamerika

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- 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.

ISBN

• 0896087441
• 9780896087446
• 0896087433
• 9780896087439

LCCN

2004030398

OCLC

• 57344048
• SCSB-11775325

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library