Women and freedom in early America / edited by Larry D. Eldridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eldridge, Larry D.

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History.

Women.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 354 p. )

Other Title:

Women & freedom in early America

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Part I : Race, ethnicity, and gender

Gender and the longhouse : Iroquois women in a changing culture / Gretchen L. Green

Women of the New France noblesse / Jan V. Noel

Princesses, wives, and wenches : White perceptions of Southeastern Indian women in 1770 / Eirlys M. Barker

Freedom among African women servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century British colonies / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason

Part II : Religion

"My dear liberty" : Quaker spinsterhood and female autonomy in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / Karin A. Wulf

Women, religion, and freedom in New France / Terrence A. Crowley

Wise virgins and pious mothers : Spiritual community among Baptist women of the Delaware Valley / Janet More Lindman

Part III : Work and the colonial economy

"What Providence has brought them to be" : Widows, work, and the print culture of colonial Charleston

"To have a sufficient maintenance" : Women and the economics of freedom in frontier Pennsylvania, 1750-1800 / Judith A. Ridner

Women and economic freedom in the North Carolina backcountry / Johanna Miller Lewis

Part IV : Marriage and the family

"Whers gone to she knows not" : Desertion and widowhood in early Pennsylvania / Merril D. Smith

The marriage metaphor in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Elizabeth Dale

"If widow, both housewife and husband may be" : Widows' testamentary freedom in colonial Massachusetts and Maryland / Vivian Bruce Conger

Part V : Society and the courts

Women of "No particular home" : Town leaders and female transients in Rhode Island, 1750-1800 / Ruth Wallis Herndon

The free women of Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, 1630-1740 / Julie Richter

Mitigating inequality : Women and justice in colonial New York / Deborah A. Rosen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.

ISBN:

9780585364513

0585364516

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06442 hdl