Andrea Smith’s book, “Conquest” mentions the painful and horrible situation that native women had faced during the history, mid-nineties, as well as in the present. She explains how women bodies were destructed and deteriorated through sexual violence and domestic abuse. Her book focuses on sexual violence as a tool of patriarchy and colonialism in native communities, both historically and today. She mentions how colonizers had historically used sexual violence as a primary tool of genocide, “Native people, in the eyes of the colonizers, are marked by their sexual perversity.” They had a mentality that the bodies of Native people are dirty, as their skins are black and has color, impure and shameful, so they were rape able and violable over the course of history. This shows these women’s bodies were only treated as an object for sex.
Andrea talks about women’s bodies were used as an experimental tool for reproduction and medical testing. She mentions, when Indian Health Service initiated a fully federally funded sterilization campaign in 1970, these Native …show more content…
Looking through out the history, women always have been dominated and suffered, especially indigenous women, women of color, poor women. They were tortured, gang raped, sexually abused. She gives several examples of women being suffered- thousands of Asian women were victim of girl trafficking, murder of 500 women (having their nipple cut off) in Juarez, Mexico, missing of 500 women in Canada. Analyzing the situation, we can figure out that only indigenous woman, people of color, poor were the main victim and were targeted, always poor people, especially women had to suffer. They were used as sex object as they can be rape able, treated like an animal, used for medical experimentation, and abused in boarding schools. In every sector women have been exploited. Sometimes government is also unfair to