CHAIN HER BY ONE FOOT: THE SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW FRANCE Karen Anderson New York (N.Y.), Routledge, 1991. 247pp, cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-415-04758-7 Distributed by Routledge, 29 West 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10001 Professional Reviewed by Donna J. Adrian Volume 20 Number 1 1992 January An interesting social history, written from a feminist perspective, showing the devastation of the Huron and Montagnais way of life — a result of the French exploration and settlement of North America. The book effectively explains the influence of outside cultures in subjugating the native women in seventeenth-century New France. The book discusses the exploitation of the Huron and Montagnais tribes and the decimation of these societies through disease, warfare, famine and the introduction of the fur trade. It shows how the missionaries changed the lives, attitudes and values of the native people, and how the determina­tion of the Jesuits to replicate the society of France in New France and to make the "savages" deferent to God and Crown altered the egalitarian relation­ships of native society. The innumerable quotations do not interfere with the ease with which the book reads. A bibliography, chapter notes and a few illustrations bear witness to conscientious research. Recommended for post-secondary women's studies and native studies courses. Donna J. Adrian, Laurenval School Board, Rosemere, Que.