Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Ninteenth-Century Massachusetts

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These essays reflect the complexity and richness of current scholarship in women’s history. Informed by quite a lot of source materials and methodologies, the ten chapters break down a generalized construct of “womanhood” to explore the dynamics between gender, race, ethnicity, and class.

The first section of the book specializes in women’s work, paid and unpaid, and the effects of class, ethnicity, and gender at the structure of the job market and on power relations inside the circle of relatives. The second one section revisits the concept that of “sisterhood” by having a look at women on the subject of their families, social and cultural networks, and civic and private institutions. The editor’s introduction sets the essays within the current historiographical context of women’s studies and provides a bibliographical essay for the nonspecialist reader.


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