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Women and freedom in early America [electronic resource] / edi ted by Larry D. Eldridge.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c1997.Description: xii, 354 p. ; 24 cmOther title:
  • Women & freedom in early America
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Contents:
Part I : Race, ethnicity, and gender -- Gender and the longhouse : Iroquois women in a changing culture / Gretchen L. Green -- Wom en 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 sla ves in the seventeenth-century British colonies / Lillian Ashcraft-E ason -- Part II : Religion -- "My dear liberty" : Quaker spinster hood 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 a mong 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 eco nomics of freedom in frontier Pennsylvania, 1750-1800 / Judith A. Ri dner -- 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 Pe nnsylvania / Merril D. Smith -- The marriage metaphor in seventee nth-century Massachusetts / Elizabeth Dale -- "If widow, both hou sewife and husband may be" : Widows' testamentary freedom in colonial M assachusetts and Maryland / Vivian Bruce Conger -- Part V : Socie ty and the courts -- Women of "No particular home" : Town leaders an d female transients in Rhode Island, 1750-1800 / Ruth Wallis Herndon -- The free women of Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, 1630-17 40 / Julie Richter -- Mitigating inequality : Women and justice i n colonial New York / Deborah A. Rosen.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.

Part I : Race, ethnicity, and gender -- Gender and the longhouse : Iroquois women in a changing culture / Gretchen L. Green -- Wom en 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 sla ves in the seventeenth-century British colonies / Lillian Ashcraft-E ason -- Part II : Religion -- "My dear liberty" : Quaker spinster hood 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 a mong 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 eco nomics of freedom in frontier Pennsylvania, 1750-1800 / Judith A. Ri dner -- 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 Pe nnsylvania / Merril D. Smith -- The marriage metaphor in seventee nth-century Massachusetts / Elizabeth Dale -- "If widow, both hou sewife and husband may be" : Widows' testamentary freedom in colonial M assachusetts and Maryland / Vivian Bruce Conger -- Part V : Socie ty and the courts -- Women of "No particular home" : Town leaders an d female transients in Rhode Island, 1750-1800 / Ruth Wallis Herndon -- The free women of Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, 1630-17 40 / Julie Richter -- Mitigating inequality : Women and justice i n colonial New York / Deborah A. Rosen.

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