
Founding Mothers & Fathers
Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
Mary Beth Norton(Autor*in)
Random House Inc (Verlag)
Erschienen am 29. Juli 1997
Buch
Softcover
512 Seiten
978-0-679-74977-6 (ISBN)
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Beschreibung
In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan, whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church excommunicated her for arguing that God had told husbands to listen to their wives. And here is the enigma of Thomas, or Thomasine Hall, who lived comfortably as both a man and a woman in 17th century Virginia. Wonderfully erudite and vastly readable, Founding Mothers & Fathers reveals both the philosophical assumptions and intimate domestic arrangements of our colonial ancestors in all their rigor, strangeness, and unruly passion.
"An important, imaginative book. Norton destroys our nostalgic image of a 'golden age' of family life and re-creates a more complex past whose assumptions and anxieties are still with us."--Raleigh News and Observer
"An important, imaginative book. Norton destroys our nostalgic image of a 'golden age' of family life and re-creates a more complex past whose assumptions and anxieties are still with us."--Raleigh News and Observer
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Verlagsgruppe
Random House USA Inc
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Maße
Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 132 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
Gewicht
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-679-74977-6 (9780679749776)
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