Natural Federalism or Un-Natural Feminism. (English, 2022). Overview
Edited by Vandana Tete
Publisher: Pyara Kerketta Foundation, Ranchi
This is an English-language anthology of intersectional feminist writings by scholars from all over the world. Here, Tete has essays by indigenous north American writers Kate Shanley, Laura Tohe, and Renya Ramirez, followed by Black and African feminists, as well as decolonial feminist writers from Australia, China, and Hawaii.
The volume aims to situate Adivasi women's writing in a decolonial framework in dialogue with Indigenous activists in other parts of the world; the dialogue with Indigenous North American thought seems especially vital and important. Several of the essays have been published in other venues, including scholarly and feminist journals from different parts of the world.
In the Introduction, Tete argues (as she has argued in other essays) that since Adivasi cultures were generally not patriarchal prior to contact with the outside world, Adivasi feminism must mean something different. Indeed, for Tete, the word "feminism" itself might be a problematic colonial imposition. Her thinking here aligns with Laura Tohe's writing as well as a strain of thought associated with Black Womanist writing; however, other writers whose works are included in the collection do use versions of the idea of feminism with an embedded critique of western feminism -- intersectional feminism, decolonial feminism, etc.
Dedication:
Dedicated to All The Warrior Adivasi Women of First Nations And Our Future Generations
Table of Contents
Editorial: From Core of Adivasidom (Vandana Tete)
1. Thoughts on Indian Feminism
— Kate Shanley
2. There is No Word for Feminism in My Language
— Laura Tohe
3. Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging
— Renya Ramirez
4. Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism
— Ula Y. Taylor
5. No Other Truth? Aboriginal Women and Australian Feminism
— Melissa Lucashenko
6. African Indigenous Feminist Thought
—Njoki Wane
7. African Feminism: Mythical and Social Power of Women of African Descent 112
— Diedre L. Badej
8. Woman Spirit: Feminism and the American Indian
—Billie Nave Masters
9. Feminism and Indigenous Hawaiian Nationalism
— Haunani-Kay Trask
10. Unruly Spaces: Gender, Women's Writing and Indigenous Feminism in China
—Kay Schaffer & Song Xianlin
11 American Indian Women And Feminism
— M. Annette Jaimes & Theresa Halsey
12. Patriarchal Colonialism and Indigenism
__M. A. Jaimes*Guerrero
13. Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy
—Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck and Angie Morrill