Decolonization
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 NEW! Decolonize Self-Care |
Decolonize Self-Care mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary “self-care” practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 284 | 2023 | View |
 Indigenous Women’s Theatre in CanadaA Mechanism of Decolonization |
Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving … | Sarah Mackenzie | 192 | 2020 | View |
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NEW! Editor’s Preface |
In the Preface, series editor Bhakti Shringarpure reflects on modern self-care in the era of social media, mega influencers, neo-liberal hustle, and colonial ideologies. | Bhakti Shringarpure | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From Violence against Indigenous Women and Dramatic Subversion |
The first chapter of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada articulates the purpose of the book in light of continued violence against Indigenous women and girls, to demonstrate the links … | Sarah Mackenzie | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
The authors contextualize modern self-care, its relation to corporate marketing, its individualization, and how the movement can be tied to intersecting systems of oppression including … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 49 | 2023 | $4.90 Add |
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From Reclaiming Our Grandmothers in Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots and Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: a Story of Sacajawea |
The second chapter of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada examines the following works: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots by Monique Mojica, and Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: the … | Sarah Mackenzie | 40 | 2020 | $4.00 Add |
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From Community and Resistance in Marie Clements’ The Unnatural and Accidental Women and Now Look What You Made Me Do |
The third chapter of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada looks at the works of Marie Clements, including The Unnatural and Accidental Woman, and Now Look What You Made Me Do. The chapter … | Sarah Mackenzie | 36 | 2020 | $3.60 Add |
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From NEW! How to Have Amazing Sex (And Become Your Best Self in the Process)From: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 1 discussed women’s work, the gendered origins of multitasking, as well as sex as self-care. The authors detailed the idea that women are inherently prone to multitasking, therefore … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 43 | 2023 | $4.30 Add |
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From  Preface |
The Preface by the co-author Doreen Manuel, George Manuel’s daughter, shares her perspectives on her father and the purpose and updates of the new edition. | Doreen Manuel | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Marketing Self-CareFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 2 discussed the modern prioritization of the personal benefits of self-care that are marketable and make white, rich, cis, and heteronormative femininity commodifiable. The authors … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 52 | 2023 | $5.20 Add |
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From Media, Gendered Violence and Dramatic Resistance in Yvette Nolan’s Annie Mae’s Movement and Blade. |
The fourth chapter of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada looks at the works of Yvette Nolan, specifically Annie Mae’s Movement and Blade. First, the author introduces Yvette … | Sarah Mackenzie | 35 | 2020 | $3.50 Add |
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From Indigenous Women’s Theatre: A Transnational Mechanism of Decolonization |
The fifth and final chapter of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada considers drama and theatre as a method of decolonization and as a process of educating about and healing from violence … | Sarah Mackenzie | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! More Care, Less Self?From: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 4 discussed the self-care industry’s use of social justice language as it continues to be a market that relies on inspiration and appropriation of indigenity and other cultural … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 36 | 2023 | $3.60 Add |
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From NEW! You Can Nourish Your Family and Climb the Ladder of Success! The White Neoliberal Feminism and Hip Domesticity of Food-Based Health MovementsFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 3 discussed food in relation to modern self-care movements and practices. The authors discussed gluten-free, other specialty diets, the colonial and Western history of natural food diets, … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 52 | 2023 | $5.20 Add |
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From  the seven sacred ways of healingFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony. | jaye simpson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From Afterword |
The Afterword of George Manuel’s biography, written by his granddaughter Kanahus Manuel, writes about her role in carrying the torch of the Indian resistance movement through Idle No More, … | Kanahus Manual | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
