Talking back : Native women and the making of the early South / Alejandra Dubcovsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubcovsky, Alejandra, 1983- Author.

Contributor:

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, former owner.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Southern States--Social conditions--17th century.

Indigenous women--Southern States--Social conditions--17th century.

Sex role--Southern States--History--17th century.

Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Florida--History--Spanish colony, 1565-1763.

Apalachee Indians.

Guale Indians.

Sex role.

Timucua Indians.

Southern States.

Genre:

History

Informational works.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7559)

Physical Description:

xiii, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Native women and the making of the early South

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

Biography/History:

Alejandra Dubcovsky is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Informed Power: Communication in the Early South. She lives in California.

Summary:

"Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women -- Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale -- to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families. Through the stories of the Native cacica who demanded her authority be recognized; the elite Spanish woman who turned her dowry and household into a source of independent power; the Floridiana who slapped a leading Native man in the town square; and the Black woman who ran a successful business at the heart of a Spanish town, Dubcovsky reveals the formidable women who claimed and used their power, shaping the history of the early South."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Glossary

Introduction: Native women in the early south

Part I: The land of women. An Yndia Chacata guide ; Standing in place, not standing still ; The wars women were already fighting

Part II: Fighting women. Women besieged and besieging ; Narrating war and loss ; The war that never ends

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-254) and index.

Local Notes:

Schimmel 7559: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. With dust jacket.

Other Format:

Online version: Dubcovsky, Alejandra, 1983- Talking back.

ISBN:

9780300266122

030026612X

OCLC:

1346535529