
Since the colonization of indigenous peoples in North America, the roles of Native women within their societies have been concealed or, at best, misunderstood. By examining gender status, and particularly power, in ten culture areas, this volume, edited by Laura F. Klein and...

Revised papers from the December 1988 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, plus two additional chapters, challenge the popular and academic generalizations of women's roles in Native North American cultures and dispute some long-held theories of gender...