Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Documents in Early American History

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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 throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Along with sources that convey women’s experiences in their own words, the work includes prescriptive and proscriptive materials, most written by men, to further remove darkness from women’s behavior and attitudes. The book is divided into six thematic chapters: sex and reproduction, marriage and circle of relatives, women’s work, religion, politics and the law, and changing gender ideologies. Introductory essays by the editors place each and every section within historical, cultural, and social context, and each and every source is annotated with details about the document’s writer and insightful interpretation of its typicality or its special circumstances.

This enriching collection fills a huge gap within the study of early American women, and it’s sure to stimulate further discussions about both the common and diverse aspects of their lives.

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