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Ye Heart of a Man - The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England (Paperback, New edition)
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Ye Heart of a Man - The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England (Paperback, New edition)
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This fascinating book is the first to investigate the everyday
lives of men in prerevolutionary America. It looks at men and women
in colonial Massachusetts and Connecticut, comparing their
experiences in order to understand the domestic environment in
which they spent most of their time. Lisa Wilson tells wonderful
stories of colonial New England men, addressing the challenges of
youth, the responsibilities of adulthood, and the trials of aging.
She finds that ideas about patriarchy or nineteenth-century notions
of separate spheres for men and women fail to explain the world
that these early New England men describe. Patriarchal power,
although certainly real enough, was tempered by notions of
obligation, duty, and affection. These men created their identities
in a multigendered, domestic world. A man was defined by his
usefulness in this domestic context; as part of an interdependent
family, his goal was service to family and community, not the
self-reliant independence of the next century's "self-made" man.
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