Women and power in native 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.

subjects: Social conditions,  Economic conditions,  Indian women,  Sex role,  History,  North America,  Indian women, north america,  Indians of north america, history,  Indians of north america, social conditions,  Indians of north america, economic conditions,  Indiennes d'Amérique,  Histoire,  Conditions sociales,  Conditions économiques,  Rôle selon le sexe,  Indianerin,  Geschlechterrolle,  Indiennes,  Indiens,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Women's Studies

Places: North America