Chain Her by One Foot

The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France

Karen Anderson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

1993
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-90827-6 (ISBN)

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Focusing on social history, this work states that: the subjugation of women in seventeenth-century New France was linked with the brutal colonization of native Indian populations. This is a cross-cultural, feminist case study of the historical and political construction of gender and racial inequality.

In this highly original volume of social history, Karen Anderson makes a provocative claim: the subjugation of women in seventeenth-century New France was linked with the brutal colonization of native Indian populations. Before colonization, the Huron and Montagnais tribes lived in gender-egalitarian societies. The domination of women by men was only one effect of French "civilization"--along with warfare, disease, famine and Jesuit proselytization--which combined to destroy Indian culture and sexual equality. Anderson's is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, feminist case study of the historical and political construction of gender and racial inequality.

Karen Anderson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University, Ontario.

Chapter 1 ‘Proud, Disobedient and Ill-Tempered’; Chapter 2 ‘The Blood of Martyrs is the Seed of Christians’; Chapter 3 ‘That they may also Acquire a French Heart and Spirit’; Chapter 4 ‘The Male is More Fitted to Rule than the Female’; Chapter 5 ‘This Little Fury of Hell’; Chapter 6 ‘Women Sustain the Families’; Chapter 7 ‘Among these Tribes are Found Powerful Women of Extraordinary Stature’; Chapter 8 ‘Death Over a Slow Fire’; Chapter 9 ‘Chain Her by One Foot’; Chapter 10 Conclusions;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.3.1994
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-415-90827-2 / 0415908272
ISBN-13	978-0-415-90827-6 / 9780415908276
Zustand	Neuware