Mothers of the nations indigenous mothering as global resistance, reclaiming and recovery / edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Kim Anderson.

Other author Anderson, Kim, 1964-
Other author Lavell-Harvard, D. Memee (Dawn Memee), 1974-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2014]
Descriptionvii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Subjects

Contents The meaning of motherhood among the Kabyle Berber, Indigenous People of North Africa -- "We practically lived off the land": Generational changes in food acquisition patterns among First Nations mothers and grandmothers -- Risk and resistance: Creating maternal risk through imposed biomedical 'safety' in the post-colonial Indigenous Philippines -- Indigenous midwifery as an expression of sovereignty -- Stories of mothers living with HIV+ in Kibera, a mega-slum in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Towards the wellbeing of Aboriginal mothers and their families: You can't mandate time -- The impact of sexual violence on Indigenous motherhood in Guatemala -- Camera, a collective, and a critical concern: Feminist research aimed at capturing new images of Aboriginal motherhood -- Storying the untold: Indigenous motherhood and street sex work -- Motherhood, policies and tea -- The power of ancestral stories on mothers & daughters -- Rebirth and renewal: Finding empowerment through Indigenous women's literature -- Māori mothering: Repression, resistance and renaissance -- Nimâmâsak: The legacy of First Nations women honouring mothers and motherhood -- Indigenous principles for single mothering in a fragmented world -- Growing up: A dialogue between Kim Anderson and Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard on personal and professional evolutions in Indigenous mothering.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014495814
ISBN9781927335451 (pbk.)

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