| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907. By Carolyn Ross Johnston. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xvi, 227 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-8173-1332-X. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-5056-X.)

Where Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women (1998) explored the impact of contact and colonization on Cherokee women up to the eve of removal, Carolyn Ross Johnston's Cherokee Women in Crisis begins with removal and tracks women's lives into the early twentieth century. Johnston grounds her study in the gender conventions that, for centuries, had defined Cherokee women as guardians of children and of the earth. But when, in the early decades of the nineteenth century, many Cherokee women began to abandon Selu (the corn mother) for the cult of domesticity, the rights and responsibilities that had always defined them became points of contention rather than consensus.

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