Beschreibung:
Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their nations from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century.
Introduction: Clothing the People without History 1. Domestic Work and Exchange in Early Contact 2. Purchased Cloth and the Transformation of Labor in the Seventeenth Century 3. Cultural Entanglement and European Anxiety in the Early Eighteenth Century 4. Women's Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Mid-Eighteenth Century5. Gender, Race, and Civility in Eighteenth-Century Education 6. Erasure and Violence against Women in the American Revolution 7. Caroline Parker and Making a Modern TraditionalityEpilogue: Miss Mountpleasant and the Indian Wigwam