Indigenous FeminismBooks

Gregory D. Smithers traces Indigenous gender traditions through colonial suppression, survival, and renewal, locating the modern reclamation of Two-Spirit identity within language, spirituality, and sovereignty.

Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.

An extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism by award-winning Gitxsan journalist Angela Sterritt who survived life on the streets. Combining personal narrative with in-depth investigation into Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), this book reveals how colonialism and racism created a society where Indigenous women's lives are ignored and devalued, while proving that Indigenous women's strength and brilliance is unbroken.

An oral-history account of Indigenous women’s participation in the Zapatista movement and their unfinished struggle to transform political leadership, domestic life, land, health, and education.

Combining Indigenous wisdom with scientific knowledge to explore the relationship between humans and nature, proposing ecofeminist practices based on reciprocity and gratitude.

This foundational work of ecofeminism reveals how the development paradigm threatens survival itself through violence against nature and women. Through the experiences and perspectives of rural Indian women, Shiva demonstrates how patriarchal development models simultaneously destroy ecosystems and marginalize women, arguing for women's central role as biodiversity custodians in ecological regeneration.