The Womb is to the Nation as the Heart is to the Body: Ethnopolitical Discourses of the Canadian Indigenous Women's Movement

Abstract

Constitutional reform is a story of contested boundaries and shifting solidarities. It is a story of new opportunities, the transformation of old structures, and the creation of new social identities arising with new political boundaries. The following is a story of ethnopolitical transformation in Canada's on-going struggles for constitutional reform and ethnic redefinition.