Separated by Their Sex : : Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World /

Separated by Their Sex : : Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World / / Mary Beth Norton.

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In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Norton, Mary Beth,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2014
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 7 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Lady Frances Berkeley and Virginia Politics, 1675-1678
  • Chapter 2. English Women in the Public Realm, 1642-1653
  • Chapter 3. John Dunton and the Invention of the Feminine Private
  • Chapter 4. Women and Politics, Eighteenth Century-Style
  • Chapter 5. Consolidating the Feminine Private
  • Conclusion: Defining "Women"
  • Notes
  • Index

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