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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 17 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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