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Coyote Politics: Trickster Tales and Feminist Futures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Shane Phelan
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Abstract

This essay is a first attempt at thinking through the ways in which Native American Coyote stories can illuminate options for lesbian and feminist politics. I follow the metaphors of trickery and shape-shifting common to the stories and recommend the laughter they evoke as we engage in feminist politics and philosophy.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , Summer 1996 , pp. 130 - 149
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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