Engendered Encounters

by Margaret D. Jacobs

Book Overview

In this interdisciplinary study of gender, cross-cultural encounters, and federal Indian policy, Margaret D. Jacobs explores the changing relationship between Anglo-American women and Pueblo Indians before and after the turn of the century. During the late nineteenth century, the Pueblos were often characterized by women reformers as barbaric and needing to be "uplifted" into civilization. By the 1920s, however, the Pueblos were widely admired by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803276095
• ISBN13: 9780803276093
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"