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

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A Nation of Women provides a history of the significance of gender in Lenape/Delaware encounters with Europeans, and a history of women in these encounters.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Fur, Gunlög Maria
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Series:	Early American studies.
Subjects:	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. Delaware Indians Delaware Indians > Social life and customs Sex role Middle Atlantic States History.

Table of 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.