Wheeler, Rachel2019-12-062019-12-062011Wheeler, R. (2011). Review of Gunlog Fur, A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters among the Delaware Indians (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 264 pp. Cloth, 39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4182-20. Women and Social Movements, (15), 1.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/21423Gunlög Fur's A Nation of Women is an ambitious book. It is essentially an overview of Delaware history and cultural change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from a gender studies perspective. During this time, the Delaware were commonly referred to as women in diplomatic contexts, and Fur's book attempts to unpack the meanings behind this designation, first by examining the "roles and responsibilities of women" among the Delaware, and the "historical conditions that made such a gendered designation possible." She examines gender both as an "organizing principle for subsistence activities, division of labor and exchange, and dispersion of power" as well as "a process of thought and belief" that "finds sanction in the spiritual realm."en-USPublisher PolicyDelaware historyGender studiesArticle