Women in early America / edited by Thomas A. Foster ; foreword by Carol Berkin ; afterword by Jennifer L. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berkin, Carol, author of foreword.

Morgan, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lyle), author of afterword.

Contributor:

Foster, Thomas A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History--17th century.

Women.

Women--United States--History--18th century.

Women--United States--Social conditions.

History.

United States.

Social conditions.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Social history.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 294 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Women in Early America tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic. In these essays we learn about the conditions that women faced in many different circumstances: during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico, as indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland, while caught between warring British and Native Americans, as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit, as slave owners in Jamaica, as Loyalist women during the American Revolution, while enslaved in the president's house, and as students and educators inspired by the air of equality in the young nation. Women in Early America heeds the call of feminist scholars: it does not merely reproduce male-centered narratives, "add women, and stir" but rather rethinks master narratives themselves so that we may better understand how women and men created and developed our historical past. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword: meeting the challenges of early american women's history / Carol Berkin

Acknowledgments

Introduction: women in early Americ a: crossing boundaries, rewriting histories / Thomas A. Foster

Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the inquisition : the travails of a seventeenth-century aristocratic woman in New Mexico / Ramón A. Gutirrez

"Women are as knowing therein as the men" : Dutch women in early America / Kim Todt

Women as witches, witches as women : witchcraft and patriarchy in colonial

North america / Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis

Servant women and sex in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Betty Wood

Rebecca Kellogg Ashley : negotiating identity on the early American borderlands, 1704-1757 / Joy A. J. Howard

Womanly masters : gendering slave ownership in colonial Jamaica / Christine Walker

Women at the crossroads : trade, mobility, and power in early French America and Detroit / Karen L. Marrero

The agrarian village world of indian women in the Ohio River Valley / Susan Sleeper-Smith

Loyalist women in British New York City, 1776-1783 / Ruma Chopra

"I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty" : Ona Judge Staines, the president's runaway slave / Erica Armstrong Dunbar

"The need of their genius" : a women's revolution in early America / Mary C. Kelley

Afterword: women in early America / Jennifer L. Morgan

Index

About the contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479874545

147987454X

9781479890477

1479890472

OCLC:

893452374