Chain Her by One Foot - The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 ‘Proud, Disobedient and Ill-Tempered’; Chapter 2 ‘The Blood of Martyrs is the Seed of Christians’; Chapter 3 ‘That they may also Acquire a French Heart and Spirit’; Chapter 4 ‘The Male is More Fitted to Rule than the Female’; Chapter 5 ‘This Little Fury of Hell’; Chapter 6 ‘Women Sustain the Families’; Chapter 7 ‘Among these Tribes are Found Powerful Women of Extraordinary Stature’; Chapter 8 ‘Death Over a Slow Fire’; Chapter 9 ‘Chain Her by One Foot’; Chapter 10 Conclusions;

About the author

Karen Anderson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University, Ontario.

Summary

Focusing on social history, this work states that: the subjugation of women in seventeenth-century New France was linked with the brutal colonization of native Indian populations. This is a cross-cultural, feminist case study of the historical and political construction of gender and racial inequality.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Anderson
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.1993
• EAN: 9780415908276
• ISBN: 978-0-415-90827-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Weight: 470 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), North America, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / North America, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Feminism and feminist theory, North America (USA and Canada), 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599