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A Nation of Women : Gender and Colonial Encounters among the Delaware Indians.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201994
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Nation of WomenLOC classification:
  • E99.D2 -- F87 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "We Are But a Women Nation" -- One: The Power of Life: Gender and Organization in Lenape Society -- Two: Living Traditions in Times of Turmoil: Meniolagomekah -- Three: Powerful Women: Disruptive and Disorderly Women -- Four: Mapping the Future: Women and Visions -- Five: Metaphors and National Identity: Delawares-as-Women -- Six: What the Hermit Saw: Change and Continuity in the History of Gender and Encounters -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: A 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "We Are But a Women Nation" -- One: The Power of Life: Gender and Organization in Lenape Society -- Two: Living Traditions in Times of Turmoil: Meniolagomekah -- Three: Powerful Women: Disruptive and Disorderly Women -- Four: Mapping the Future: Women and Visions -- Five: Metaphors and National Identity: Delawares-as-Women -- Six: What the Hermit Saw: Change and Continuity in the History of Gender and Encounters -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

A 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.

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