„Jak psát o odlišnosti: Autobiografické reakce původních obyvatelek Austrálie a Severní Ameriky na mainstreamový feminismus“

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. „Jak psát o odlišnosti: Autobiografické reakce původních obyvatelek Austrálie a Severní Ameriky na mainstreamový feminismus“ (“Inscribing Difference: Autobiographical Responses of Australian and North American Indigenous Women to Mainstream Feminism”). Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 2007, vol. 8, No 1, p. 33-39. ISSN 1213-0028.

Basic information

• Original name: „Jak psát o odlišnosti: Autobiografické reakce původních obyvatelek Austrálie a Severní Ameriky na mainstreamový feminismus“
• Name (in English): “Inscribing Difference: Autobiographical Responses of Australian and North American Indigenous Women to Mainstream Feminism”
• Authors: HORÁKOVÁ, Martina.
• Edition: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum, Praha, Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 2007, 1213-0028.

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Indigenous women; life writing; feminism; difference
• Tags: difference, feminism, Indigenous women, life writing

Abstract (in English)

The article focuses on the strategies of inscribing difference within the feminist discourse in the texts of three contemporary Indigenous writers, Jackie Huggins’ Sistergirl (1998), Lee Maracle’s I Am Woman (1996) and Paula Gunn Allen’s The Sacred Hoop (1986). I argue that these texts, by communicating perspectives on Indigenous women’s identities, representations, and their common struggles in the 20th century, help to deconstruct the universalistic and homogeneous category of Woman, developed by the second-wave first-world mainstream feminism. In their engagement in multi-generic, experiential and subjective writing, such representations offer a significant alternative to the mainstream imaginary of female Indigenousness.