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Author | : Emily C. K. Romeo |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781625345127 |
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Dismantling the image of the peaceful and serene colonial goodwife and countering the assumption that New England was inherently less violent than other regions of colonial America, Emily C. K. Romeo offers a revealing look at acts of violence by Anglo-American women in colonial Massachusetts, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Using Essex County as a case study, Romeo deftly utilizes seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to demonstrate that Puritan women, both "virtuous" and otherwise, learned to negotiate the shifting boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable violence in their daily lives and communities. The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts shows that more dramatic violence by women -- including infanticide, the scalping of captors during the Indian Wars, and even witchcraft accusations -- was not necessarily intended to challenge the structures of authority but often sprung from women's desire to protect property, safety, and standing for themselves and their families. The situations in which women chose to flout powerful social conventions and resort to overt violence expose the underlying, often unspoken, priorities and gendered expectations that shaped this society.
Author | : Merril D. Smith |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
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"Provides an overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century. Covers topics such as women's roles in the family, women and the law, women and immigration, women's work, women and religion, women and war, and women and education, literature, and recreation"--Del editor.
Author | : Isabelle Gallet |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Else L. Hambleton |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780415948609 |
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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Patricia Mayr |
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Reis |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501713337 |
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In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity.Puritan ministers insisted that women and men were equal in the sight of God, with both sexes equally capable of cleaving to Christ or to the devil. Nevertheless, Reis explains, womanhood and evil were inextricably linked in the minds and hearts of seventeenth-century New England Puritans. Women and men feared hell equally but Puritan culture encouraged women to believe it was their vile natures that would take them there rather than the particular sins they might have committed.Following the Salem witchcraft trials, Reis argues, Puritans' understanding of sin and the devil changed. Ministers and laity conceived of a Satan who tempted sinners and presided physically over hell, rather than one who possessed souls in the living world. Women and men became increasingly confident of their redemption, although women more than men continued to imagine themselves as essentially corrupt, even after the Great Awakening.
Author | : Edith Murphy |
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Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Authority |
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Author | : Paula A. Treckel |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9780805799231 |
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Author | : Carl Holliday |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : United States |
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