Founding Mothers & Fathers
Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
$37.15
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
29 July 1997
Summary
In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan, whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church exc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679749776 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679749772 |
| Author: | Mary Beth Norton |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 1997 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 133mm x 201mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Mary Beth Norton
Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger, a professor of American history at Cornell University. She is the author of The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 (1972); Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (1980); Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and (with five others) A People and a Nation (6th ed., 2001). She has also edited several works on women’s history and served as the general editor of The AHA Guide to Historical Literature (3rd ed., 1995).
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