Under Household Government : : Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts / / M. Michelle Jarrett Morris.
Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors' behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which f...
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Morris, M. Michelle Jarrett, author. Under Household Government : Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts / M. Michelle Jarrett Morris. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource : 15 charts, 2 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Harvard Historical Studies ; 180 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Words, Words, Words -- Introduction -- 1. Daniel Gookin's House hold -- 2. Contrary to the Laws of God and This Jurisdiction -- 3. Lawful Remedies, Diabolical Erections, and an Unwanted Suitor -- 4. The Rape of Elizabeth Pierce -- 5. A Family of Allies -- 6. Two Missing Infants -- 7. Traitors, Rebels, and Slaves -- Conclusion -- A Peek behind the Scenes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors' behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion. In a society where one's sister's husband's brother's wife was referred to as "sister," kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal cases, courtrooms became battlegrounds for warring clans. Families flooded the courts with testimony, sometimes resorting to slander and jury-tampering to defend their kin. Even slaves merited defense as household members-and as valuable property. Servants, on the other hand, could expect to be cast out and left to fend for themselves. As she elaborates the ways family policing undermined the administration of justice, M. Michelle Jarrett Morris shows how ordinary colonists understood sexual, marital, and familial relationships. Long-buried tales are resurrected here, such as that of Thomas Wilkinson's (unsuccessful) attempt to exchange cheese for sex with Mary Toothaker, and the discovery of a headless baby along the shore of Boston's Mill Pond. The Puritans that we meet in Morris's account are not the cardboard caricatures of myth, but are rendered with both skill and sensitivity. Their stories of love, sex, and betrayal allow us to understand anew the depth and complexity of family life in early New England. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013 9783110317121 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013 9783110317114 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2013 9783110374902 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674066335 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067899 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674067899.jpg |
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