Stolen Sisters’: Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women as Represented in Canadian Films
From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited
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In spite of cautious improvements, the situation of many Aboriginal women face is still appalling, and the report reveals cases of sexually assaulted, missing, and/or brutally murdered Aboriginal women that come to the fore again and again. Systemic mishandling of such cases by the police and loopholes in the Canadian justice system account for an alarming number of unsolved missing women and murder cases, not to mention acquitted or not appropriately convicted perpetrators.
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Kerstin Knopf
Kerstin Knopf holds an MA in American, Canadian, Hispanic, and Scandinavian Studies from the University of Greifswald in Germany. She also studied in Los Angeles (US), Gothenburg (Sweden), and Regina and Ottawa (Canada). Twice, she spent six months at the First Nations University of Canada in order to do research for her MA thesis, Aboriginal Women and Film in Canada as well as for her PhD Decolonizing the Lens of Power: A Study of Indigenous Films in North America, which is forthcoming with Rodopi Press in Amsterdam. Kerstin Knopf is assistant professor to the chair of North American Studies at the University of Greifswald. Her main research interests are Aboriginal literature, film and media, womens studies and Canadian 19th century womens literature. Currently she is working on her habilitation thesis, entitled The Female Gothic in Canada: Nineteenth-Century Women's Literature at the Interface between Romance and Horror.
