Andrea Smith. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
Foreword by Winona LaDuke. Cambridge: South End Press, 2005. ix + 229
pages. Appendix, endnotes, resource guide, index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-89608-744-1; $18.00 (paper), ISBN 0-89608-743-3.

Reviewed by Megan L. MacDonald, American Studies Program, Purdue University.

Published by H-AmIndian@h-net.msu.edu (May, 2006)

 " Andrea Smith's work, _Conquest_, is both provocative and painful in terms of
illustrating the active degradation and destruction of Native women's
bodies. The book accomplishes many tasks and is intensely interdisciplinary,
drawing on activist history and a legacy of women and men of color writing
about colonization in all forms. Smith's role as co-organizer of "INCITE!
Women of Color," as well as involvement in other feminist-activist groups,
allows her a unique perspective from which to write _Conquest_. She notes
that the main purpose of the project is to focus on sexual violence, in the
historical context and the present, as a tool of patriarchy and colonialism
in indigenous communities. This fits her project neatly into a gap in gender
studies in which redefinition and reconception of sexual violence and the
strategies employed to erase gender violence are necessary."

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