Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887557090 ISBN 13: 9780887557095

Verlag: University of Manitoba Press, 2009

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Críticas

"The collection's great strength is its incredible tightness - authors often explore the same issues, histories, individuals, and legislations from a variety of angles, weaving together many different strands into a clear, compelling whole. The collection achieves the remarkable for an academic text - focusing on analysis and action, exploring problems and presenting solutions. All of the chapters are well written and engaging, and a handful - on trauma and resilience, Aboriginal women's writings, cultural competence, and museum artifacts - are especially excellent."--J.B. Edwards, University of Montana "Choice Magazine, September 2009 " "This timely text, directed to policy-makers, educators and community members, presents a wide-ranging collection of papers all of which address the task of restoring gender balance in terms of both the representation of and the reality of First Nations women's participation in various social contexts. Importantly it also documents some of the outstanding work women have been doing over the last several decades in this regard."--Celia Haig-Brown, York University "Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies "

Reseña del editor

First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community experiences. Centuries of colonization, however, have devalued the traditional roles of First Nations women, causing a great gender imbalance that limits the abilities of men, women, and their communities in achieving self-actualization. Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being. Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists, and community leaders, Restoring the Balance combines life histories and biographical accounts with historical and critical analyses grounded in traditional thought and approaches. It is a powerful and important book.

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• Verlag: University of Manitoba Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0887557090
• ISBN 13: 9780887557095
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 412
• Herausgeber: Valaskakis Gail Guthrie, Stout Madeleine Dion, Guimond Eric