Founding Mothers & Fathers
Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
Erschienen am 3. August 2011
512 Seiten
978-0-307-76076-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, this novel is about power relationships in early American society, religion, and politics--with insights into the initial development and operation of government, the maintenance of social order, and the experiences of individual men and women.
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Person
Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger, a professor of American history at Cornell University. She is the author of The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 (1972); Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (1980); Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and (with five others) A People and a Nation (6th ed., 2001). She has also edited several works on women's history and served as the general editor of The AHA Guide to Historical Literature (3rd ed., 1995).
Inhalt
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by this Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I - Gendered Power in the Family
- Prologue: The Government of Familyes
- Chapter 1 - The First Society
- Chapter 2 - A Little Monarcky
- Chapter 3 - Free in Liberty
- Section II - Gendered Power in the Community
- Prologue: Searchers Againe Assembled
- Chapter 4 - Communities of Men, Communities of Women
- Chapter 5 - Amongst the Neighbors
- Section III - Gendered Power in the State
- Prologue: His Lordship's Attorney
- Chapter 6 - Fathers and Magistrates, Authority and Consent
- Chapter 7 - Marvelous Wickedness
- Chapter 8 - Husband, Preacher, Magistrate
- Conclusion
- Author's Note
- Appendix: Data and Methodology
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Notes
- Copyright
