Chain Her by One Foot
The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France
Nonfiction, History
| Author: | Karen Anderson | ISBN: | 9781135214111 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | June 14, 1993 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Karen Anderson |
| ISBN: | 9781135214111 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | June 14, 1993 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
