This coming Friday, the Law & Society@UBC group presents a talk that will be of interest to Anthropologists:
Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez and Indigenous Women’s Rights: Can Gender and Sovereignty Co-Exist?
by Dr. Cheryl Suzack, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria and a member of the Batchewana First Nations of Ojibways.
Abstract:
This paper explores the cultural and political implications for Indigenous women of the Martinez decision by taking up the following question: What are the implications for indigenous-feminist politics if the racial sovereignty asserted by tribal nations depends on socially-sanctioned sexual identities? It takes up this question by arguing for the value of a law and literature project that explores how Indigenous women writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko challenge conventional associations of gender identity.
Friday, January 11, 2008
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
UBC Faculty of Law, Room 149