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

by Gunlög Fur

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241827
• ISBN13: 9780812241822
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"