This book represents social history on a grand scale, imaginatively conceived and massively researched. Norton brilliantly portrays a dramatic transformation of women's private lives in the wake of the Revolution.
This book represents social history on a grand scale, imaginatively conceived and massively researched. Norton brilliantly portrays a dramatic transformation of women's private lives in the wake of the Revolution.
Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University. She is the author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 and the coeditor of 'To Toil the Livelong Day': America's Women at Work, 1780-1980, also from Cornell.
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PART I: THE CONSTANT PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 1. The Small Circle of Domestic Concerns 2. The Important Crisis upon Which Our Fate Depends 3. Fair Flowers, If Rightly Cultivated 4. In What Would You Shew Your Activity? 5. As Independent as Circumstances Will AdmitPART II: THE CHANGING PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 6. We Commenced Perfect Statesmen 7. Necessity Taught Us 195 8. A Reverence of Self 9. Vindicating the Equality of Female IntellectConclusion: A New Era of Female History Abbreviations Appearing in the Sources and References Glossary of Major Families and Sources Essay on Sources Chapter References Index
PART I: THE CONSTANT PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 1. The Small Circle of Domestic Concerns 2. The Important Crisis upon Which Our Fate Depends 3. Fair Flowers, If Rightly Cultivated 4. In What Would You Shew Your Activity? 5. As Independent as Circumstances Will AdmitPART II: THE CHANGING PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 6. We Commenced Perfect Statesmen 7. Necessity Taught Us 195 8. A Reverence of Self 9. Vindicating the Equality of Female IntellectConclusion: A New Era of Female History Abbreviations Appearing in the Sources and References Glossary of Major Families and Sources Essay on Sources Chapter References Index
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