I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and FeminismI Am Woman represents my personal struggle with womanhood, culture, traditional spiritual beliefs and political sovereignty, written during a time when that struggle was not over. My original intention was to empower Native women to take to heart their own personal struggle for Native feminist being. The changes made in this second edition of the text do not alter my original intention. It remains my attempt to present a Native woman's sociological perspective on the impacts of colonialism on us, as women, and on my self personally. |
Contents
Want to Write | 3 |
Am Woman | 14 |
Isnt Love a Given? | 20 |
My Love | 31 |
Law Politics and Tradition | 36 |
Rusty | 43 |
Black Robes | 62 |
The 1950s | 71 |
Education | 88 |
The Rebel | 93 |
Party Down | 105 |
Another Side of Me | 108 |
Pork Chops and Applesauce | 118 |
Normal vs Natural | 127 |
The Womens Movement | 137 |
Flowers | 141 |
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