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The editors draw on diaries, letters, essays, court documents,
sermons, wills, plantation records, newspapers, fiction, and advice
manuals to reconstruct women's lives and roles during the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition to sources that
convey women's experiences in their own words, the work includes
prescriptive and proscriptive materials, most written by men, to
further illuminate women's behavior and attitudes. The book is
divided into six thematic chapters: sex and reproduction, marriage
and family, women's work, religion, politics and the law, and
changing gender ideologies. Introductory essays by the editors
place each section within historical, cultural, and social context,
and each source is annotated with information about the document's
author and insightful interpretation of its typicality or its
special circumstances.
This enriching collection fills a major gap in the study of early
American women, and it is sure to stimulate further discussions
about both the common and diverse aspects of their lives.
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