gendered power and the forming of American society Norton, Mary Beth. Additional Author mixed material bibliography Maryland A.A. Knopf 1996 monographic 1st ed. en English

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x, 496 p. ; 25 cm. 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. Social conditions United States Politics and government Sex role Families 305.309730679429654 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 305.30973 Nor f 11201500898 Non Fiction 305.30973 Nor f Founding_mothers_%26%2338%3B_fathers.gif 81994 1995-10-03 00:00:00 2015-11-23 11:24:24 machine generated