{"id":56901,"date":"2018-10-08T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56901"},"modified":"2018-10-08T04:04:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T04:04:41","slug":"an-honest-woman-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56901","title":{"rendered":"An Honest Woman: Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Honest Woman: Poems<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Talonbooks<\/a>
\n2017
\n104 pages
\n6 W \u00d7 9 H \u00d7 1 D inches
\nPaperback\/Softback ISBN: 978177201144<\/p>\n

J\u00f3n\u00edna Kirton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"An<\/a><\/p>\n

An Honest Woman<\/em> by J\u00f3n\u00edna Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de Beauvoir<\/a> and Donald Trump<\/a> to unravel the norms of femininity and sexuality that continue to adhere today.<\/p>\n

Kirton recalls her own upbringing, during which she was told to find a good husband who would \u201cmake an honest woman\u201d out of her. Exploring the lives of many women, including her mother, her contemporaries, and well-known sex-crime stories such as the case of Elisabeth Fritzl<\/a>, Kirton mines the personal to loosen the grip of patriarchal and colonial impositions.<\/p>\n

An Honest Woman<\/em> explores the many ways the female body is shaped by questions that have been too political to ask: What happens when a woman decides to take her sexuality into her own hands, dismissing cultural norms and the expectations of her parents? How is a young woman\u2019s sexuality influenced when she is perceived as an \u201cexotic\u201d other? Can a woman reconnect with her Indigenous community by choosing Indigenous lovers?<\/p>\n

Daring and tender in their honesty and wisdom, these poems challenge the perception of women\u2019s bodies as glamorous and marketable commodities and imagine an embodied female experience that accommodates the role of creativity and a nurturing relationship with the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An “Honest Woman” by J\u00f3n\u00edna Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de Beauvoir and Donald Trump to unravel the norms of femininity and sexuality that continue to adhere today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,8,3015,1617,25],"tags":[4838,20659],"class_list":["post-56901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-poetry-books","category-women","tag-jonina-kirton","tag-talonbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56904,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56901\/revisions\/56904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}