| Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 Contributor(s): Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (Author), Ericksen, Susan (Read by) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798200265541 Publisher: Tantor Audio OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - History | Women |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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 this book 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. |