The Virtuous And Violent Women Of Seventeenth Century Massachusetts

Author : Emily C. K. Romeo
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1625345127

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The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-century Massachusetts by Emily C. K. Romeo Pdf

Dismantling the image of the peaceful and serene colonial goodwife and countering the assumption that New England was inherently less violent than other regions of colonial America, Emily C. K. Romeo offers a revealing look at acts of violence by Anglo-American women in colonial Massachusetts, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Using Essex County as a case study, Romeo deftly utilizes seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to demonstrate that Puritan women, both "virtuous" and otherwise, learned to negotiate the shifting boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable violence in their daily lives and communities. The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts shows that more dramatic violence by women -- including infanticide, the scalping of captors during the Indian Wars, and even witchcraft accusations -- was not necessarily intended to challenge the structures of authority but often sprung from women's desire to protect property, safety, and standing for themselves and their families. The situations in which women chose to flout powerful social conventions and resort to overt violence expose the underlying, often unspoken, priorities and gendered expectations that shaped this society.

Author : Paula A. Treckel
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018482401

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To Comfort the Heart by Paula A. Treckel Pdf

Focusing on the experience of English "huswives" and indentured servants, she reveals how their actions and expectations, as well as their relationships with women of other races and cultures, were shaped by Old World perceptions of woman's appropriate role.

Author : Merril D. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313087066

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Women's Roles in Seventeenth-Century America by Merril D. Smith Pdf

In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave trade during this period. This volume provides the essential overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century, as the dominant European settlers established their patriarchy. Women were essential to the existence of a new patriarchal society, most importantly because they were necessary for its reproduction. In addition to their roles as wives and mothers, Colonial women took care of the house and household by cooking, preserving food, sewing, spinning, tending gardens, taking care of sick or injured members of the household, and many other tasks. Students and general readers will learn about women's roles in the family, women and the law, women and immigration, women's work, women and religion, women and war, and women and education. literature, and recreation. The narrative chapters in this volume focus on women, particularly white women, within the eastern region of the current United States, the site of the first colonies. Chapter 1 discusses women's roles within the family and household and how women's experiences in the various colonies differed. Chapter 2 considers women and the law and roles in courts and as victims of crime. Chapter 3 looks at women and immigration—those who came with families or as servants or slaves. Women's work is the subject of Chapter 4. The focus is work within the home, preparing food, sewing, taking care of children, and making household goods, or as businesswomen or midwives. Women and religion are discussed in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 examines women's role in war. Women's education is one focus of Chapter 7. Few Colonial women could read but most women did receive an education in the arts of housewifery. Chapter 7 also looks at women's contributions to literature and their leisure time. Few women were free to pursue literary endeavors, but many expressed their creativity through handiwork. A chronology, selected bibliography, and historical illustrations accompany the text.

Author : Else L. Hambleton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0415948606

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Daughters of Eve by Else L. Hambleton Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Elizabeth Reis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501713330

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Damned Women by Elizabeth Reis Pdf

In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity.Puritan ministers insisted that women and men were equal in the sight of God, with both sexes equally capable of cleaving to Christ or to the devil. Nevertheless, Reis explains, womanhood and evil were inextricably linked in the minds and hearts of seventeenth-century New England Puritans. Women and men feared hell equally but Puritan culture encouraged women to believe it was their vile natures that would take them there rather than the particular sins they might have committed.Following the Salem witchcraft trials, Reis argues, Puritans' understanding of sin and the devil changed. Ministers and laity conceived of a Satan who tempted sinners and presided physically over hell, rather than one who possessed souls in the living world. Women and men became increasingly confident of their redemption, although women more than men continued to imagine themselves as essentially corrupt, even after the Great Awakening.

Author : Jessica Malay
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804790558

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The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson by Jessica Malay Pdf

The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution. It also shows moments of personal courage and interventions on the author's behalf by friends and strangers, some of whom are subject to severe reprisals. Mary wrote her story to come to terms with her situation, to justify her actions, and to cast herself in a virtuous light. The accompanying discussion of her life, drawn from other sources, provides chilling evidence of the vulnerability of seventeenth-century women and the flawed legal mechanisms that were supposed to protect them. Readers are also invited to consider in what ways the self-portrait is accurate and what elements of it may be considered fabrication. Malay's archival efforts have thus rescued a compelling and complicated voice from the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065458187

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Lucille Salitan,Eve Lewis Perera
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002575168

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Virtuous Lives by Lucille Salitan,Eve Lewis Perera Pdf

"These women were passionate, dynamic, and full of conviction...Engaging and quick reading that should appeal to students in women's studies, Quakerism, and New England history". -- Library Journal

Author : William B. Hart
Publisher : Native Americans of the Northe
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1625344953

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"For the Good of Their Souls" by William B. Hart Pdf

In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened its mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about one-fifth of the Mohawks in the area began attending services. They even adapted versions of the service for use in private spaces, which potentially opened a door to an imagined faith community with the Protestants. Using the lens of performance theory to explain the ways in which the Mohawks considered converting and participating in Christian rituals, historian William B. Hart contends that Mohawks who prayed, sang hymns, submitted to baptism, took communion, and acquired literacy did so to protect their nation's sovereignty, fulfill their responsibility of reciprocity, serve their communities, and reinvent themselves. Performing Christianity was a means of "survivance," a strategy for sustaining Mohawk life and culture on their terms in a changing world.

Author : Polly Wynn Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015031607628

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Building Domestic Liberty by Polly Wynn Allen Pdf

Author : Alice Morse Earle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387319743

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Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Kacy Dowd Tillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1625344325

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Stripped and Script by Kacy Dowd Tillman Pdf

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectively silenced -- unable to officially align themselves with either side or avoid being persecuted for their family ties. In this book, Kacy Dowd Tillman argues that women's letters and journals are the key to recovering these voices, as these private writings were used as vehicles for public engagement. Through a literary analysis of extensive correspondence by statesmen's wives, Quakers, merchants, and spies, Stripped and Script offers a new definition of loyalism that accounts for disaffection, pacifism, neutralism, and loyalism-by-association. Taking up the rhetoric of violation and rape, this archive repeatedly references the real threats rebels posed to female bodies, property, friendships, and families. Through writing, these women defended themselves against violation, in part, by writing about their personal experiences while knowing that the documents themselves may be confiscated, used against them, and circulated.

Author : Ann Leighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Botany
ISBN : 0870235303

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Early American Gardens by Ann Leighton Pdf

Concentrating on the gardens of the early settlers of New England, this volume deals with gardeners as well as the plants they depended upon for household aids, flavorings, drinks, medicines, etc. The Appendix of plant descriptions occupies half of the pages.

Author : Florence Hartley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009635152

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Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politéness by Florence Hartley Pdf

Do unto others as you would others should do to you. You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be im polite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us ;a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; the.re can be no true, politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility. Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.

Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Culture and Politics in the Company
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1558492763

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Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz Pdf

An examination of the development of Betty Friedan's feminist outlook. Horowitz (American studies, Smith College) looks at Friedan's life from her childhood in Peoria, Illinois through her wartime years at Smith College and Berkeley, to her decade-long career as a writer for two radical labor journals, the Federated Press and the United Electrical Workers' UE News. He argues that this history, combined with the fact that Friedan continued to work on behalf of many social causes after her marriage, contradicts Friedan's claim that her commitment to women's rights grew solely out of her experience as an alienated suburban housewife. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR