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Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France
Chain Her by One Foot The Subjugation of Native Women in SeventeenthCentury New France Author:Karen Anderson 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... more » 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.« less