MMIW Reading List: Texts at McLaughlin Library
This resource list was compiled Dave Hudson, a Learning & Curriculum Support Librarian, at the University of Guelph. It features books, journal and magazine articles, and reports about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women that are available to students, faculty, and staff at McLaughlin Library.
Each citation features a link to the resource on McLaughlin Library’s website. By following this link, you can access more information on where (and how) to access the resource.
This resource list is subject to change. It will expand along with McLaughlin Library’s collection. If you have any material to recommend, please email library@uoguelph.ca.
Books
Anderson, A. Brenda, Wendee Kubik, and Mary Rucklos Hampton, eds. Torn from Our Midst: Voices of Grief, Healing and Action from the Missing Indigenous Women Conference, 2008. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2010. http://primo.tuglibraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:vtug4495072
Dean, Amber. Remembering Vancouver’s Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:vtug4950905
Lavell-Hard, D. Memee, and Jennifer Brant. Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press, 2016. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:vtug5017914
Journal & Magazine Articles
Bailey, Jane, and Sara Shayan. “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis: Technological Dimensions.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 28, no. 2 (2016): 321-341. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:TN_museS1911023516200064
Brodsky, Gwen. “Indian Act Sex Discrimination: Enough Inquiry Already, Just Fix It.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 28, no. 2 (2016): 314-320. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:TN_museS1911023516200052
Coleman, Julie, Emily Lindsay Jackson, Gayle Strikes with a Gun, and Doris Sweet Grass. “Decolonizing the Emergency: Shelter in the Colonial Present.” Briarpatch. May 1, 2014. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-the-emergency
Eberts, Mary. “Knowing and Unknowing: Settler Reflections on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.” Saskatchewan Law Review 77, no. 1 (2014): 69-104. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:TN_gale_legal369938047
Palmater, Pamela. “Shining Light on the Dark Places: Addressing Police Racism and Sexualized Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in the National Inquiry.”Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 28, no. 2 (2016): 253-284. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:TN_museS1911023516200027
Saramo, Samira. “Unsettling Spaces: Grassroots Responses to Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women During the Harper Government Years.” Comparative American Studies An International Journal 14, no. 3-4 (2016): 204-20. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:TN_crossref10.1080/14775700.2016.1267311
Simpson, Audra. “The State is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty.” Theory & Event 19, no. 4 (2016). http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:TN_museS1092311X1640010X
Smiley, Cherry. “A Long Road Behind Us, a Long Road Ahead: Towards an Indigenous Feminist National Inquiry.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 28, no. 2 (2016): 308-313. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:TN_museS1911023516200040
Thobani, Sunera. “Sovereignty, culture, rights: the racial politics of gendered violence in Canada.” Borderlands 14, no. 1 (2015). http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol14no1_2015/thobani_canada.pdf
Reports, Primary Sources & Government Documents
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Progress on Women’s Rights: Missing in Action: A Shadow Report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2015. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:vtug4819740
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada. Ottawa: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 2015. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:vtug4819934
Native Women’s Association of Canada. What Their Stories Tell Us Research Findings from the Sisters in Spirit Initiative. Ohsweken, ON: Native Women’s Association of Canada, 2010. http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/GUELPH:search_tab:vtug4393680