From interviews with street sex workers and families, Charbonneau and colleagues locate strong motherhood in "othermothering spaces" among adoptive, foster, and queer families. Through First Nations, Inuit, and Metis resistance stories, Brant reclaims an Indigenous maternal pedagogy that troubles biological reductionisms of motherhood and serves instead as a metaphor of resilience and rebirth through the historical violence of the Indian Act, eugenics movement, and sixties scoop assimilationist policies. Sellers rereads Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe origin stories to explore nonheteronormative celebrations of mother-daughter bonds and "many mothers" communities. (1) Grasshoff/Makilam examines motherhood among the Kabyle Berber contra Western Christian patriarchy's gender logic. The chapters congeal around the theme of resistance and the "centrality of strong powerful women," a mutual experience and worldview among nuanced histories (2).īuilding on motherhood studies-a field in which, despite new directions, Indigenous women remain marginal-the book challenges essentialist and mainstream conceptions of mothering. The book consists of sixteen chapters on Indigenous women's different roles globally in revitalizing communities after centuries of colonial violence and in ongoing struggles against oppression. MOTHERS OF THE NATIONS is an important collaboration between noted educators and aboriginal/Indigenous family advocates Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard and Kim Anderson. In addressing these diverse subjects and peoples living in North America, Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Philippines and Oceania, the authors provide a forum to understand the shared interests of Indigenous women across the globe.Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and RecoveryĮdited by Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard and Kim Anderson The book addresses diverse subjects, including child welfare, Indigenous mothering in curriculum, mothers and traditional foods, intergenerational mothering in the wake of residential schooling, mothering and HIV, urban Indigenous mothering, mothers working the sex trade, adoptive and other mothers, Indigenous midwifery, and more. MOTHERS OF THE NATIONS is an important collaboration between noted educators and aboriginal/Indigenous family advocates Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard and Kim. The book explores issues surrounding and impacting Indigenous mothering, family and community in a variety of contexts internationally. Recent generations of powerful Indigenous women have begun speaking out so that their positions of respect within their families and communities might be reclaimed.
The voices of Indigenous women world-wide have long been silenced by colonial oppression and institutions of patriarchal dominance.
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