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Author:

Fur, Gunlög Maria.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-241) and index.

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.

Series:

Early American studies

ISBN:

0812241827 (alk. paper)
9780812241822 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)278980783

LCCN:

2008051591

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)