Women and power in native North America
By: edited by Laura F. Klein and Lillian A. Ackerman.
Contributors: Klein, Laura F. 1946-; Ackerman, Lillian A.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Indian women -- North America -- History; Indian women -- North America -- Social conditions; Indian women -- North America -- Economic conditions; Sex role -- North America -- History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-282) and index.