Good Wives
Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775), Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
| Author: | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | ISBN: | 9780307772978 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | December 29, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN: | 9780307772978 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | December 29, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
