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Puritans Behaving Badly - Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Puritans Behaving Badly - Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this
book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and
religious identities for men and women. The book argues that
laypeople shaped gender conventions by challenging the ideas of
ministers and rectifying more traditional ideas of masculinity and
femininity. Although Puritan's emphasis on spiritual equality had
the opportunity to radically alter gender roles, in daily practice
laymen censured men and women differently - punishing men for
public behavior that threatened the peace of their communities, and
women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual
corruption. In order to retain their public masculine identity, men
altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into
the construction of religious ideas about public service, the
creation of the individual, and the gendering of separate spheres.
With these practices, Puritans transformed their 'errand into the
wilderness' and the normative Puritan became female.
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