Women's Roles in Seventeenth-Century America

by Smith, Merril D.

• ISBN13: 9780313339769
• ISBN10: 0313339767
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave trade during this period. This volume provides the essential overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century, as the dominant European settlers established their patriarchy. Women were essential to the existence of a new patriarchal society, most importantly because they were necessary for its reproduction. In addition to their roles as wives and mothers, Colonial women took care of the house and household by cooking, preserving food, sewing, spinning, tending gardens, taking care of sick or injured members of the household, and many other tasks. Students and general readers will learn about 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.

Table of Contents

Series

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chronology

Women and the Family

Women and Law

Women and Immigration

Women and Work

Women and Religion

Women and War

Women and Education, Literature, and Recreation elected

Bibliography and Resources

Index

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