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.

Author: Karen Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/14/1993
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.06h x 6.06w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780415908276

About the Author

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