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Women in early America struggle, survival, and freedom in a new world
Title:
Women in early America struggle, survival, and freedom in a new world
Author:
Mays, Dorothy A.
ISBN:
9781851094349

9781280713835
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 495 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Abortion -- Adams, Abigail Smith -- Adams, Hannah -- Addictive substances -- Adultery -- African American women and religion -- African American women and the American Revolution -- African American women, free -- Aging Women -- Agricultural Labor -- American Revolution -- American Revolution and its effect on women's status -- American Revolution on the home front -- Anglican women -- Arnold, Margaret Shippen -- Benevolent societies -- Berkeley, Lady Frances Culpeper -- Birth control -- Body image and beauty -- Boycotts -- Bradford, Cornelia Smith -- Bradstreet, Anne -- Brant, Molly -- Breastfeeding -- Brent, Margaret -- Camp followers and women of the Army -- Catholic women -- Childbirth -- Children, custody of -- Civil disobedience -- Clothing -- Colonization, effect on Indian Women -- Convents -- Cooking -- Courtship -- Coverture -- Crime and punishment -- Dancing -- Dare, Virginia -- Death and funeral customs -- Diet -- Disease -- Divorce -- Domestic labor -- Domestic violence -- Duston, Hannah Emerson -- Dutch settlement, women's life and culture in -- Dyer, Mary -- Education -- Elite women -- Etiquette -- Feme sole -- Feme sole trader -- Feminism -- First-generation immigrants -- Fornication -- Franklin, Ann Smith -- Freeman, Elizabeth -- French colonies, women in -- Fur traders' wives -- Gambling -- Gardening -- German women -- Girlhood and adolescence -- Graham, Isabella Marshall -- Great awakening -- Gynecological issues -- Hemings, Sally -- Hobbies and games -- Holidays and festivals -- Household responsibilities -- Housing -- Hutchinson, Anne Marbury -- Hygiene -- Indentured servitude and convict labor -- Indian captivity -- Indian women -- Indian women and leadership -- Indian women and work -- Infanticide -- Interracial marriage -- Islamic women -- Jemison, Mary -- Jewish women -- Key, Elizabeth -- Knight, Sarah Kemble -- Lee, Ann -- Legal status of women -- Lesbians -- Literature -- Loyalist women and the American Revolution -- Manly hearted women -- Mariners' wives -- Marriage -- Marriage and family among enslaved women -- McCrea, Jane -- Medical care -- Mental illness -- Merry, Anne Brunton -- Methodist women -- Midwives -- Military service and the American Revolution -- Milliners and seamstresses -- Molly Pitcher legend -- Moody, Lady Deborah Dunch -- Moravian women -- Motherhood -- Mothers, single -- Murray, Judith Sargent Stevens -- Musgrove, Mary -- Music -- Nurse, Rebecca -- Orphaned girls -- Philipse, Margaret Hardenbrook -- Pilgrim women -- Pinckney, Eliza Lucas -- Plantation mistresses -- Pocahontas -- Political wives -- Portraiture -- Poverty -- Printers and the printing trade -- Prostitution -- Puritan women -- Quaker women -- Quilting -- Rape -- Religion -- Reputation -- Ross, Betsy Griscom -- Rowlandson, Mary -- Rowson, Susanna Haswell -- Sacagawea -- Salem Witch Trials -- Sampson, Deborah -- Schuyler, Catherine Van Rensselaer -- Science and technology, women in -- Self-sufficiency -- Seton, Elizabeth Ann Bayley -- Sewing -- Sex and sexuality -- Sex ratio -- Shopkeepers and merchants -- Shopping -- Single women -- Slander.

Slavery -- Spanish colonies, women in -- Spies and the American Revolution -- Spooner, Bathsheba -- Sports and leisure -- Stepfamilies -- Suffrage -- Sumptuary laws -- Superstition and belief in magic -- Tavern keepers and innkeepers -- Teachers -- Tekakwitha, Kateri -- Textile industry -- Theater --Timothy, Elizabeth -- Tituba -- Tourism and leisure travel -- Travel -- Van Rensselaer, Maria van Cortlandt -- Ward, Nancy -- Warren, Mercy Otis -- Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis -- Wheatley, Phillis -- Widowhood -- Wilkinson, Jemima -- Wills and inheritance -- Wilson, Sarah -- Witchcraft -- Wright, Patience Lovell -- Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia.
Abstract:
This volume offers details of the lives of early American women and showing how these women adapted to the challenges of daily life in the Colonies. The women of early America were not fighting for equal rights - they were struggling for basic survival.
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