Description
On this highly unique volume of social history, Karen Anderson makes a provocative claim: the subjugation of ladies in 17th-century New France used to be linked with the brutal colonization of local Indian populations. Before colonization, the Huron and Montagnais tribes lived in gender-egalitarian societies. The domination of ladies by men used to be just one impact of French “civilization”–in conjunction 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 take a look at of the historical and political construction of gender and racial inequality.