Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries

Shirts Powdered Red explores how Haudenosaunee women used global trade to maintain their identity and sovereignty despite colonial pressures. It tells the story of how they worked to maintain their cultural and political sovereignty through selective engagement with trade and the rhetoric of civility.

Format: Hardback
Length: 366 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2023
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Shirts Powdered Red is a captivating book that delves into the profound impact of Haudenosaunee women and their work on their nations from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century. Through a detailed examination of clothing that was purchased, created, and remade, Maeve Kane sheds light on how these women utilized access to global trade to maintain a distinct and enduring Haudenosaunee identity amidst the pressures of colonial assimilation and disappearance. Drawing on a wealth of oral, archival, material, visual, and quantitative evidence, Shirts Powdered Red unfolds the captivating story of how Haudenosaunee people strategically engaged with trade and the rhetoric of civility to uphold their cultural and political sovereignty, even as their clothing and gendered labor became the focal point of colonial conversion efforts during the tumultuous upheavals and dispossession of the nineteenth century. This book offers a comprehensive cultural history spanning three centuries, providing a deep insight into the tireless labor and agency of Haudenosaunee women in shaping their nations' future.

Shirts Powdered Red is a captivating book that delves into the profound impact of Haudenosaunee women and their work on their nations from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century. Through a detailed examination of clothing that was purchased, created, and remade, Maeve Kane sheds light on how these women utilized access to global trade to maintain a distinct and enduring Haudenosaunee identity amidst the pressures of colonial assimilation and disappearance. Drawing on a wealth of oral, archival, material, visual, and quantitative evidence, Shirts Powdered Red unfolds the captivating story of how Haudenosaunee people strategically engaged with trade and the rhetoric of civility to uphold their cultural and political sovereignty, even as their clothing and gendered labor became the focal point of colonial conversion efforts during the tumultuous upheavals and dispossession of the nineteenth century. This book offers a comprehensive cultural history spanning three centuries, providing a deep insight into the tireless labor and agency of Haudenosaunee women in shaping their nations' future.

Weight: 907g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501767883