A Nation of Women : : Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians / / Gunlog Fur, Gunlög Fur.
A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America.In Delaware society at the beginni...
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Fur, Gunlog, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Nation of Women : Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians / Gunlog Fur, Gunlög Fur. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012] ©2009 1 online resource (264 p.) : 17 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Early American Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "We Are But a Women Nation" -- Chapter One: The Power of Life: Gender and Organization in Lenape Society -- Chapter Two: Living Traditions in Times of Turmoil: Meniolagomekah -- Chapter Three: Powerful Women: Disruptive and Disorderly -- Chapter Four: Mapping the Future: Women and Visions -- Chapter 5: Metaphors and National Identity: Delawares-as-Women -- Chapter 6: What the Hermit Saw: Change and Continuity in the History of Gender and Encounters -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America.In Delaware society at the beginning of this period, to be a woman meant to engage in the activities performed by women, including diplomacy, rather than to be defined by biological sex. Among the Delaware, being a "woman" was therefore a self-identification, employed by both women and men, that reflected the complementary roles of both sexes within Delaware society. For these reasons, the Delaware were known among Europeans and other Native American groups as "a nation of women."Decades of interaction with these other cultures gradually eroded the positive connotations of being a nation of women as well as the importance of actual women in Delaware society. In Anglo-Indian politics, being depicted as a woman suggested weakness and evil. Exposed to such thinking, Delaware men struggled successfully to assume the formal speaking roles and political authority that women once held. To salvage some sense of gender complementarity in Delaware society, men and women redrew the lines of their duties more rigidly. As the era came to a close, even as some Delaware engaged in a renewal of Delaware identity as a masculine nation, others rejected involvement in Christian networks that threatened to disturb the already precarious gender balance in their social relations.Drawing on all available European accounts, including those in Swedish, German, and English, Fur establishes the centrality of gender in Delaware life and, in doing so, argues for a new understanding of how different notions of gender influenced all interactions in colonial North America. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) American Studies. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh American History. Fur, Gunlög, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History 9783110413496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812222050 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201994 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201994 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812201994/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "We Are But a Women Nation" -- Chapter One: The Power of Life: Gender and Organization in Lenape Society -- Chapter Two: Living Traditions in Times of Turmoil: Meniolagomekah -- Chapter Three: Powerful Women: Disruptive and Disorderly -- Chapter Four: Mapping the Future: Women and Visions -- Chapter 5: Metaphors and National Identity: Delawares-as-Women -- Chapter 6: What the Hermit Saw: Change and Continuity in the History of Gender and Encounters -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "We Are But a Women Nation" -- Chapter One: The Power of Life: Gender and Organization in Lenape Society -- Chapter Two: Living Traditions in Times of Turmoil: Meniolagomekah -- Chapter Three: Powerful Women: Disruptive and Disorderly -- Chapter Four: Mapping the Future: Women and Visions -- Chapter 5: Metaphors and National Identity: Delawares-as-Women -- Chapter 6: What the Hermit Saw: Change and Continuity in the History of Gender and Encounters -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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