Talking back : native women and the making of the early South / Alejandra Dubcovsky.
| Author/creator |
Dubcovsky, Alejandra, 1983- author. |
| Other author/creator | Yale University Press, publisher. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2023 |
| Description | xiii, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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." -- From publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-254) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780300266122 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 030026612X (hardcover) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | E98 .W8 D833 2023 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |