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Cherokee women : gender and culture change, 1700-1835 /

Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, a...

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Main Author: Perdue, Theda, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, ©1998.
Series:Indians of the Southeast
Subjects and Genres:
Geschichte 1700-1835.
Cherokee women > History.
Cherokee women > Social conditions.
Cherokee Indians > Social life and customs.
Sex role > United States.
Sexual division of labor > United States.
Femmes cherokee > Histoire.
Femmes cherokee > Conditions sociales.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis.
Society.
Cherokee women.
Sex role.
Sexual division of labor.
Cherokee
Frau
Kulturwandel
Soziale Situation
Cherokee (volk)
Creek Indians > History.
Indiennes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Indiennes > États-Unis > Histoire > 1700-1835.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Division sexuelle du travail > États-Unis.
United States.
Cherokee.
History.
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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Available from ACLS Humanities
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/HEB03498
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. A woman's world
  • Constructing gender
  • Defining community
  • Pt. 2. Contact
  • Trade
  • War
  • Pt. 3. Civilization
  • A changing way of life
  • Women in the early Cherokee republic
  • Selu meets Eve
  • Conclusion.

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