FEMINIST THEORY AND THE INVASION OF THE HEARS IN NORTH-AMERICA

This essay analyzes and assesses a variety of forms in which feminist theory has been brought to bear on the ethnohistory of Christianity am ong Native North American women: feminist political economy; race, cla ss, and gender as interrelated systems of inequality; the social const ruction of gendered selves, particularly as analyzed through personal narratives and biographies; and postmodern and poststructural theories of disciplinary institutions, embodied practices, and resistance.