Women's work in New England, 1620-1920 / editor, Peter Benes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (26th : 2001 : Deerfield, Mass.)

Contributor:

Benes, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--New England--Congresses.

Women.

Women--Employment.

New England.

Women--New England--Social conditions--Congresses.

Social conditions.

Women--New England--Work and Family--Congresses.

Work and family.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Boston University, 2003.

Contents:

Section I. Women and washing. Washing household linens and linen clothing in 1627 Plymouth / Maureen Richard

Section II. Women and agriculture. Increase and vantage: Women, cows, and the agricultural economy of Colonial New England / Pamela J. Snow

Constance Strong's diary: Women's work in North Pomfret, Vermont, 1910-1920 / Cameron Clifford

Section III. Women as producers of textiles and clothing. "That leisure hour I seldon find": Hannah Hayden's work and family economy in frontier New York, 1806-1822 / Amber Degn

"The fruit of my industry": economic roles and marital conflict in New England, 1790-1830 / Mary Beth Sievens

One in every village: women in Maine who knit for others / Robin Hansen

Section IV. Women in industry and communications. Number, please: New Hampshire Predial Telephone operators, 1877-1920 / Judith Moyer

Section V. Abolitionists, missionaries, and memory makers. "We have all something to do in the cause of freeing the slave": The abolition work of Mary White / Mary B. Fuhrer

A New England goodwife laboring in Oregon: Mary Richardson Walker, missionary pioneer / Judith M. Knowles

Nantucket's memory keepers: Eliza Ann McCleave and the women of the Nantucket Historical Association / Aimee E. Newell

Section VI. Gendered roles in healing and childbirth. The housewife as healer: medicine as women's work in Colonial New England / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum

Women's travail,

men's labor: birth stories from eighteenth-century New England diaries / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Section VII. Children and Servants. Eggs on the sand: Domestic servants and their children in Federal New England / Marla R. Miller

Polish: The maintenance of manners / J. Coral Woodbury.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220).

OCLC:

52691139