Women’s Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies (Themes In British Social History)

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Women in early brand new Britain and colonial The us were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Relatively the reverse, strong women were the norm.  They exercised considerable influence as necessary agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies.


This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, whilst accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives.

Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but also upon the partnership between women and men.  It also looks on the varied roles – cultural, religious and educational – that women played both outside and inside marriage right through the key period 1500-1760. Women emerge as partners, patrons, matchmakers, investors and network builders.

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