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Women and freedom in early America
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Women and freedom in early America [electronic resource] / edited by Larry D. Eldridge.
Published
New York : New York University Press, c1997.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 354 p.) ; 24 cm.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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Language
English
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September 05, 2024
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.
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.
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