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PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-100812222059
ISBN-139780812222050
eBay Product ID (ePID)110960552
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Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNation of Women : Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians
Publication Year2012
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Gender Studies, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
TypeTextbook
AuthorGunlög Fur
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
SeriesEarly American Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews"Fur's use of Swedish records and her imaginative approach to the Moravian records make this book rich in new information on Delaware history and a major contribution to the literature in women's history."--Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut, Fur's use of Swedish records and her imaginative approach to the Moravian records make this book rich in new information on Delaware history and a major contribution to the literature in women's history., "Fur's use of Swedish records and her imaginative approach to the Moravian records make this book rich in new information on Delaware history and a major contribution to the literature in women's history."-Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut
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Table Of ContentPreface Introduction: "We Are But a Women Nation" 1. The Power of Life: Gender and Organization in Lenape Society 2. Living Traditions in Times of Turmoil: Meniolagomekah 3. Powerful Women: Disruptive and Disorderly Women 4. Mapping the Future: Women and Visions 5. Metaphors and National Identity: Delawares-as-Women 6. What the Hermit Saw: Change and Continuity in the History of Gender and Encounters List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
SynopsisA Nation of Women provides a history of the significance of gender in Lenape/Delaware encounters with Europeans, and a history of women in these encounters., 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.
