First generations : women in colonial America /

First generations : women in colonial America / Carol Berkin ; consulting editor : Eric Foner.

Biographical sketches and collective portraits reconstruct the experiences of Native American, European, and African women of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berkin, Carol.
Other Authors: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1997.
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Women > United States > History > 17th century.
Women > United States > History > 18th century.
Women.
Gender identity.
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Table of Contents:
  • Immigrants to paradise : white women in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake
  • Goodwives and bad : New England women in the seventeenth century
  • The sisters of Pocahontas : Native American women in the centuries of colonization
  • In a "Babel of confusion" : women in the middle colonies.
  • The rhythms of labor : African-American women in colonial society
  • The rise of gentility : class and regional differences in the eighteenth century
  • "Beat of drum and ringing of bell" : women in the American Revolution
  • Fair daughters of Columbia : white women in the new republic.

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