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Women and freedom in early America

Larry D. Eldridge
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction: A Remarkable Diversity (page 1)
  • PART I: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER (page 5)
    • 1 Gender and the Longhouse: Iroquois Women in a Changing Culture (GRETCHEN L. GREEN, page 7)
    • 2 Women of the New France Noblesse (JAN V. NOEL, page 26)
    • 3 Princesses, Wives, and Wenches: White Perceptions of Southeastern Indian Women to 1770 (EIRLYS M. BARKER, page 44)
    • 4 Freedom among African Women Servants and Slaves in the Seventeenth-Century British Colonies (LILLIAN ASHCRAFT-EASON, page 62)
  • PART II: RELIGION (page 81)
    • 5 "My Dear Liberty": Quaker Spinsterhood and Female Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania (KARIN A. WULF, page 83)
    • 6 Women, Religion, and Freedom in New France (TERRENCE A. CROWLEY, page 109)
    • 7 Wise Virgins and Pious Mothers: Spiritual Community among Baptist Women of the Delaware Valley (JANET MOORE LINDMAN, page 127)
  • PART III: WORK AND THE COLONIAL ECONOMY (page 145)
    • 8 "What Providence Has Brought Them to Be": Widows, Work, and the Print Culture of Colonial Charleston (MARTHA J. KING, page 147)
    • 9 "To Have a Sufficient Maintenance": Women and the Economics of Freedom in Frontier Pennsylvania, 1750-1800 (JUDITH A. RIDNER, page 167)
    • 10 Women and Economic Freedom in the North Carolina Backcountry (JOHANNA MILLER LEWIS, page 191)
  • PART IV: MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (page 209)
    • 11 "Whers Gone to She knows Not": Desertion and Widowhood in Early Pennsylvania (MERRIL D. SMITH, page 211)
    • 12 The Marriage and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (ELIZABETH DALE, page 229)
    • 13 "If Widow, Both Housewife and Husband May Be": Widows' Testamentary Freedom in Colonial Massachusetts and Maryland (VIVIAN BRUCE CONGER, page 244)
  • PART V: SOCIETY AND THE COURTS (page 267)
    • 14 Women of "No Particular Home": Town Leaders and Female Transients in Rhode Island, 1750-1800 (RUTH WALLIS HERNDON, page 269)
    • 15 The Free Women of Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, 1630-1740 (JULIE RICHTER, page 290)
    • 16 Mitigating Inequality: Women and Justice in Colonial New York (DEBORAH A. ROSEN, page 313)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 331)
  • Contributors (page 347)
  • Index (page 351)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
WMQ 56.1 (Jan. 1999): 194-196 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2674604
AHR 104.1 (Feb. 1999): 146-147 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650188
HNET (Aug. 1997) http://h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1236
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Published: c1997
Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780814721988 (paper)
  • 9780814721933 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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