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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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
180 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 15 charts, 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- 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