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Osage Women and Empire : Gender and Power /

"In Osage Women and Empire, Tai Edwards seeks to refocus the history of Osage power and decline to fully include the role women played in the tribe's religious and political life. Histories of the Osage have almost entirely emphasized the lives of men, but throughout much of the 18th and 1...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Edwards, Tai S. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Cosmology and complementary gender roles
  • Chapter 2. "General happiness" : gender and the Osage Empire
  • Chapter 3. "A very unfavorable change in their circumstances" : the Osage and US Imperialism
  • Chapter 4. "The vexations that the American government inflicted" : Osage women and men resisting elimination
  • Conclusion: Recovering the feminine in the Osage Empire and beyond.