Osage women and empire : gender and power / Tai S. Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Tai S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Osage Indians.

Osage women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 219 pages :) illustrations, maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]

Summary:

"In Osage Women and Empire, Tai Edwards seeks to refocus the history of Osage power and decline to fully include the role women played in the tribe's religious and political life. Histories of the Osage have almost entirely emphasized the lives of men, but throughout much of the 18th and 19th centuries, women constituted the majority of the Osage population and both women and men viewed female activities as central to tribal existence. Osage religious beliefs, which saw men and women as necessary pairs, affected how Osage men and women experienced and adapted to colonization, as these complementary gender roles manifested in virtually every aspect of their lives. Edwards argues that Osage women were critical actors during this period and that gender complementarity remained a significant feature of Osage life well into the reservation period." Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Cosmology and complementary gender roles

Chapter 2: "General happiness": gender and the Osage Empire

Chapter 3: "A very unfavorable change in their circumstances": the Osage and US Imperialism

Chapter 4: "The vexations that the American government inflicted": Osage women and men resisting elimination

Conclusion: recovering the feminine in the Osage Empire and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-2611-5

OCLC:

1061139180