Women in early America / edited by Thomas A. Foster ; foreword by Carol Berkin ; afterword by Jennifer L. Morgan.
| Other author | Foster, Thomas A. editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : New York University Press, 2015. |
| Description | xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword : meeting the challenges of early american women's history / Carol Berkin -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : women in early Americ a : crossing boundaries, rewriting histories / Thomas A. Foster -- Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the inquisition : the travails of a seventeenth-century aristocratic woman in New Mexico / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- "Women are as knowing therein as the men" : Dutch women in early America / Kim Todt -- Women as witches, witches as women : witchcraft and patriarchy in colonial North america / Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis -- Servant women and sex in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Betty Wood -- Rebecca Kellogg Ashley : negotiating identity on the early American borderlands, 1704-1757 / Joy A.J. Howard -- Womanly masters : gendering slave ownership in colonial Jamaica / Christine Walker -- Women at the crossroads : trade, mobility, and power in early French America and Detroit / Karen L. Marrero -- The agrarian village world of Indian women in the Ohio River Valley / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- Loyalist women in British New York City, 1776-1783 / Ruma Chopra -- "I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty" : Ona Judge Staines, the president's runaway slave / Erica Armstrong Dunbar -- "The need of their genius" : a women's revolution in early America / Mary C. Kelley -- Afterword : women in early America / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Index -- About the contributors. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2014040537 |
| ISBN | 9781479874545 (cl : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 147987454X (cl : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781479890477 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1479890472 (pb : alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 40024730301 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HQ1416 .W656 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |