Women and Bears

Wo(men) and Bears revisits classical debates in women's cultural and Native studies regarding nature and culture. As a mixed-genre anthology-academic and poetic, conversational and critical-the book consists of intercultural approaches on a widely-circulated ancient myth, story, history, and sacred law focused on wo(men) co-habiting with bears where women defy dualistic gender roles and relations and interact with nature in a variety of adaptive or transgressive ways. Cross-cultural fragments and stories of women and bears are presented and discussed by Armenian, Finnish, Sami, Canadian, American, German, Greenland, Tsimshian and Anishnabe scholars, storytellers, poets, and artists.