A nation of women [electronic resource] : gender and colonial encounters among the Delaware Indians / Gunlög Fur.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Early American studies.
Main Author: Fur, Gunlög Maria
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Delaware women > Social conditions > 17th century.
Delaware women > Social conditions > 18th century.
Delaware Indians > History.
Delaware Indians > Social life and customs.
Sex role > Middle Atlantic States > History.
Middle Atlantic States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The power of life: gender and organization in Lenape society
  • Living traditions in times of turmoil: Meniolagomekah
  • Powerful women: disruptive and disorderly
  • Mapping the future: women and visions
  • Metaphors and national identity: Delawares-as-women
  • What the hermit saw: change and continuity in the history of gender and encounters.