Women in Early America / / Thomas A. Foster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter NYUP / FUP Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Berkin, Carol; Morgan, Jennifer L.
• HerausgeberIn: Foster, Thomas A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the RepublicWomen in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known women-both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrant-who lived and worked in not only British mainland America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the West Indies.In these essays we learn about the conditions that women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American Revolution; enslaved in the President's house; and as students and educators inspired by the air of equality in the young nation.Foster showcases the latest research of junior and senior historians, drawing from recent scholarship informed by women's and gender history-feminist theory, gender theory, new cultural history, social history, and literary criticism. Collectively, these essays address the need for scholarship on women's lives and experiences. Women in Early America heeds the call of feminist scholars to not merely reproduce male-centered narratives, "add women, and stir," but to rethink master narratives themselves so that we may better understand how women and men created and developed our historical past.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition -- 2. "Women Are as Knowing Therein as the Men" -- 3. Women as Witches, Witches as Women -- 4. Servant Women and Sex in the Seventeenth- Century Chesapeake -- 5. Rebecca Kellogg Ashley -- 6. Womanly Masters -- 7. Women at the Crossroads -- 8. The Agrarian Village World of Indian Women in the Ohio River Valley -- 9. Loyalist Women in British New York City, 1776-1783 -- 10. "I Knew That If I Went Back to Virginia, I Should Never Get My Liberty" -- 11. "The Need of Their Genius" -- About the Contributors -- Index