The beginning and end of rape confronting sexual violence in Native America
Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book is aimed at engaging the problem head-on -- and ending it...
| Main Author: | Deer, Sarah, 1972- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Sovereignty of the soul
- Knowing through numbers? The benefits and drawbacks of data
- What she say, it be law: Tribal rape law and indigenous feminisms
- At the mercy of the state: Linking rape to federal Indian law
- All apologies: The continuing federal complicity in the rape of Native women
- Relocation revisited: The sex trafficking of Native women
- Punishing the victim: Dana's story
- The enigma of federal reform: The Tribal Law and Order Act and the Violence Against Women Act
- Toward an indigenous jurisprudence of rape
- The trouble with peacemaking: False dichotomies and the politics of restorative justice
- "Righting" Tribal Rape Law: Proposals for reform
- Conclusion: The end of rape in Native America
- Epilogue.