Reclaiming Two-Spirits

Name: Reclaiming Two-Spirits
ISBN: 9780807003466

Gregory D. Smithers traces Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, spiritual renewal, and sovereignty in Native North America.

Two-Spirit Indigenous Feminism Decolonial Feminism Queer Theory Indigenous Sovereignty

📝 Book Review & Summary

This book belongs in FemRes because it places trans life, queer politics, and feminist questions on the same map instead of treating trans experience as a “special issue” outside feminism. For readers, it helps explain how gender systems work through medicine, law, family, race, class, colonialism, media visibility, and everyday care. It keeps trans and queer history from being flattened into Euro-American identity categories and foregrounds colonial violence and Indigenous sovereignty.

It is especially useful alongside FemRes topics on Trans Feminism, Queer Theory, Bodily Autonomy, Gender Diversity, Intersectional Feminism, and Social Movements.

Publication Info

Author: Gregory D. Smithers

Published: April 26, 2022

ISBN: 9780807003466

Language: English

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