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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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CALL FOR PAPERS: HYPATIA: INTERSECTIONS OF NATIVE WOMEN AND FEMINISM
Native American Feminism is a topic that has received little discussion
among feminist philosophers. Yet, as Paula Gunn Allen wrote many years ago,
there are many red roots of white feminism. The womanist voices of Native
women philosophers, as nurtured by our cultures, will flow through the
academic forum in this special guest edition to be edited by Anne Waters,
J.D., Ph.D., of Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cheokee descent.
Among the many issues that affect indigenous women on a daily basis,
perhaps
none are more important than maintaining our �native ways of knowing,�
including belief systems, and maintenance of our culture. Other philosophical
issues of Native American cultural survival include: influence of
international human genome biodiversity project on reproductive freedom;
surviving environmental catastrophes (genocide of known environments); impact
of environmental policies on native women; native women and economics;
comparative native women�s thought at the turn of the 20th and 21st century;
native women�s traditional political and land rights; impact of colonial race
theories on native women; native women responding to contemporary race
theory; native women, class, and marxism; native women, power, and
sovereignty; traditional and contemporary social roles of native women; and
significant gender differences in native culture, just to name a few.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy invites submissions for an
anthology of original essays exploring intersections of Native American Women
and Feminism. Articles that focus on theories of gender, economics of
gender, jurisprudence and gender, education and gender, the environment and
gender, race and gender, and culture and gender are encouraged. The
following topics are also appropriate.
1. Ways that Native American women have, past or present, experienced and
culturally defined what it means to be or take on a gender, including recent
critiques of postmodern analysis, cultural studies, queer theory,
anthropological and initial contact recordings, and the recent gender research
of Will Roscoe.
2. Ways American women, and feminists or womanists in particular, have
culturally embodied or incorporated native thought, belief systems, or
practices of economics, politics, divisions of labor, spirituality, etc., into
traditional or contemporary beliefs, practices, or analysis of feminist
philosophy, including struggles for autonomy and political sovereignty.
3. Ways Native American women have, past or present, embraced a philosophy
of education, its role within a community, and its relevance to building
nations.
4. Discovery of philosophical work by unrecognized Native American women,
especially directing attention to bodies, power, domination, cultural images,
and the phenomenology of lived experience.
5. Any aspect of a thought of a recognized Native American woman as
philosopher, including the impact of gender on cognitive and creative
activities, and vice versa .
6. Philosophical ideas in Native American women poets, novelists, dramatists,
scientists, engineers, environmentalists, healers, and visionaries.
7. How the nature of philosophical work needs remoulding to incorporate
Native American women's contributions, past or present, or needs to be
redefined to be more inclusive of Native American contributions.
8. Reflections on the experience of teaching the works of Native American
women as philosophers, including issues of essentialism, gender, mothering,
embodiment, the role of social construction in identity, and environmental
justice.
9. Reflections on the relationship between Native America and American
Education, including comparisons of holocaust and genocide in Nazi Germany and
Native America .
10. Traditional Native American approaches to traditional areas of
philosophy, eg., epistemology questions, ethical issues, science and nature,
and nature vs. culture controversies, environmental policies, social and
political organization, philosophy of language, philosophy of education,
political aspects of Native American sovereignty, identity and nationalism,
philosophy of gender, class, and race theory, and philosophy of law and social
interaction.
11. Philosophical responses to the holocaust and genocide of Native America,
including issues of production and reproduction, among others.
12. Theoretical issues about Native American Feminists and Womanists, and the
relationship between Native American Feminism and EuroAmerican Feminism,
including responses to post!colonialism and postmodernism.
13. Comparisons and contrasts between theories of Native American
feminist/women's philosophy and other indigenous feminist philosophies-
Chicana, Black, etc.
All papers should be submitted in quintuplet (5 copies) and
identified as submissions for the special issue on Native American Women and
Feminism. Contributors are to follow the Hypatia style guidelines as found
in the Hypatia web site at www.is.csupomona.edu~ljshrage/hypatia/index.htm.
Send contributions to: Hypatia, Center for the Study of Women in Philosophy,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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