Allison Hargreaves

Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature,

Activism, Resistance. Wilfrid Laurier UP $29.99

In her book Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance, Allison Hargreaves gives a voice to several missing Indigenous women who had theirs stripped away. Hargreaves, a professor at UBC's Okanagan campus in the Department of Critical Studies, self-identifies as an "allied settler scholar." Her book, which she started as a doctoral thesis, is split into six sections, with an informative introduction, four chapters, each with a different focus on texts that discuss violence against Indigenous women and the issue of gendered colonial violence, and a conclusion. Each chapter begins with information about a present-day awareness-raising campaign; she then goes into detail about the opportunities and restrictions of these initiatives through the lens of various Indigenous literary works. Hargreaves specifically uses the voices of female filmmakers, poets, writers, and storytellers to illustrate "gendered experiences of colonization and resistance." She admits that while there may be many qualified male Indigenous writers who could contribute to this issue, she wants to provide female Indigenous authors with a platform as they have been silenced in the past. Hargreaves...