{"product_id":"osage-women-and-empire-tai-edwards-9780700626106","title":"Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power","description":"The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men's prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in \u003ci\u003eOsage Women and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women. Only by studying the gender roles of both can we hope to understand the rise and fall of the Osage empire. In \u003ci\u003eOsage Women and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Edwards brings gender construction to the fore in the context of Osage history through the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdwards's examination of the Osage gender construction reveals that the rise of their empire did not result in an elevation of men's status and a corresponding reduction in women's. Consulting a wealth of sources, both Osage and otherwise--ethnographies, government documents, missionary records, traveler narratives--Edwards considers how the first century and a half of colonization affected Osage gender construction. She shows how women and men built the Osage empire together. Once confronted with US settler colonialism, Osage men and women increasingly focused on hunting and trade to protect their culture, and their traditional social structures--including their system of gender complementarity--endured. Gender in fact functioned to maintain societal order and served as a central site for experiencing, adapting to, and resisting the monumental change brought on by colonization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the lens of gender, and by drawing on the insights of archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and oral history, \u003ci\u003eOsage Women and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new, more nuanced picture of the critical role of men \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e women in the period when the Osage rose to power in the western Mississippi Valley and when that power later declined on their Kansas reservation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tai Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0700626107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700626106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018","brand":"Tai Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120106664191,"sku":"9780700626106","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfd31630-cb91-468d-bc85-7227a224e50b.jpg?v=1687412585","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/osage-women-and-empire-tai-edwards-9780700626106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}