Motherhood and Indigenous Women's Health and Well-Being

Kim Anderson's use of motherhood is complex and it's attuned to how maternal roles are entangled in patriarchal policy and movements. She advocates a form of mothering that I would translate as caretaking which I see as detachable from the cisgendered biologically reproductive woman's body. Inuit feminist mini-gray has also specifically designated women's caretaking of families in the broader people in an integrated fashion, both in the past and the present. And indeed her recent work on indigenous men and masculinities does a similar thing. That work is linking indigenous men's well-being with men being defined in multiple ways to the advancement of indigenous peoples broadly.