The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America By : Sarah Deer
Book Excerpt :
Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer?s work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on?and ending it.The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer, who played a crucial role in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse. Deer provides a clear historical overview of rape and sex trafficking in North America, paying particular attention to the gendered legacy of colonialism in tribal nations?a truth largely overlooked or minimized by Native and non-Native observers. She faces this legacy directly, articulating strategies for
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