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Osage women and empire : gender and power

Title
Osage women and empire : gender and power / Tai S. Edwards.
Author
Edwards, Tai S.
Publication
  • Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
  • ©2018

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x, 219 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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 19th centuries, women constituted the majority of the Osage population and both women and men viewed female activities as central to tribal existence. Osage religious beliefs, which saw men and women as necessary pairs, affected how Osage men and women experienced and adapted to colonization, as these complementary gender roles manifested in virtually every aspect of their lives. Edwards argues that Osage women were critical actors during this period and that gender complementarity remained a significant feature of Osage life well into the reservation period."
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 18-9000
ISBN
  • 9780700626090
  • 0700626093
  • 9780700626106
  • 0700626107
LCCN
  • 2018004555
  • 40028196628
OCLC
1029790090
Author
Edwards, Tai S., author.
Title
Osage women and empire : gender and power / Tai S. Edwards.
Publisher
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40028196628
Research Call Number
JFE 18-9000
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