By, For, or About?: Shifting Directions in the Representations of Aboriginal Women

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Abstract

In the past fifteen years much has changed respecting the representation of Aboriginal women in feminist scholarship. The emergence of Aboriginal women's scholarship in law, education, and literature has had a major and much overdue impact on our understanding of their history and their scholarly and political agendas. A review of the literature by, for, and about Aboriginal women in the areas of history, law, education, health, and literature reveals new trends in interdisciplinarity within feminist studies of colonialism, representation, "voice," and issues of equality and empowerment. ; Au cours des quinze dernieres annees bien des choses ont change en ce qui concerne la representation des femmes autochtones dans le savoir feministe en. L'emergence du savoir des femmes autochtones en droit, en education, et en litteraturea eu un impact important sinon tardif sur notre comprehension de leur histoire et de leur ordre du jour erudit et politique Une revue de la litterature par, pour et au sujet des femmes autochtones dans le domaine de I'histoire, du droit, de I'education, de la sante et de la litterature revele de nouvelles tendances interdisciplinaires a l'interieur des etudes feministes sur le colonialisme, la representation, la "voix", et les questions d'egalite et d'emancipation.