| Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 Contributor(s): Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679732578 ISBN-13: 9780679732570 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1991 Annotation: This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Women |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 90055673 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.17" W x 8.02" (0.75 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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| Publisher Description: This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the goodwives of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best. |