Women and power in Native North America

Type

Book

Authors

Laura F. Klein ( Klein, Laura F. )

ISBN 10

080612752X

ISBN 13

9780806127521

Tags

Women's Studies, Women, Indigenous Women -- North America

Description

Power is understood to be manifested in a multiplicity of ways: through cosmology, economic control, and formal hierarchy. In the Native societies examined, power is continually created and redefined through individual life stages and through the history of the society. The important issue is autonomy - whether, or to what extent, individuals are autonomous in living their lives. Each author demonstrates that women in a particular cultural area of aboriginal North America had (and have) more power than many previous observers have claimed. - from Amzon

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