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050 00 $aHQ1075.5.U6$bN67 1996
082 00 $a306/.0973$220
100 1 $aNorton, Mary Beth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79053720
245 10 $aFounding mothers & fathers :$bgendered power and the forming of American society /$cMary Beth Norton.
246 3 $aFounding mothers and fathers
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c1996.
300 $ax, 496 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A portion of chapter five was originally published as Gender and defamation in seventeenth-century Maryland in William & Mary quarterly, January 1987"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gSect. I.$tGendered Power in the Family -- $tPrologue: The Government of Familyes -- $gCh. 1.$tThe First Society -- $gCh. 2.$tA Little Monarchy -- $gCh. 3.$tFree in Liberty -- $gSect. II.$tGendered Power in the Community -- $tPrologue: Searchers Againe Assembled -- $gCh. 4.$tCommunities of Men, Communities of Women -- $gCh. 5.$tAmongst the Neighbors -- $gSect. III.$tGendered Power in the State -- $tPrologue: His Lordship's Attorney -- $gCh. 6.$tFathers and Magistrates, Authority and Consent -- $gCh. 7.$tMarvelous Wickedness -- $gCh. 8.$tHusband, Preacher, Magistrate.
520 1 $a"Focusing on the first half-century of English settlement - approximately 1620 to 1670 - Mary Beth Norton looks not only at what colonists actually did but also at the philosophical basis for what they thought they were doing. She weaves theory and reality into a tapestry that reveals colonial life as more varied than we have supposed. She draws our attention to all early dysfunctional family extending over several generations and colonies.".
520 8 $a"The basic worldview of this early period, Norton demonstrates, envisaged family, society, and state as similar institutions. She shows us how, because of that familial analogy, women who wielded power in the household could also wield surprising authority outside the home.
520 8 $aWe see, for example, Mistress Margaret Brent given authority as attorney for Lord Baltimore, Maryland's Proprietor, and Mistress Anne Hutchinson, who sought and assumed religious authority, causing the greatest political crisis in Massachusetts Bay.".
520 8 $a"Norton also describes the American beginnings of another way of thinking. She argues that an imbalanced sex ratio in the Chesapeake colonies made it impossible to establish "normal" familial structures, and thus equally impossible to employ the family model as unself-consciously as was done in New England.
520 8 $aThe Chesapeake, accordingly, became a practical laboratory for the working out of a "Lockean" political system that drew a line between family and state, between "public" and "private." In this scheme, women had no formal, recognized role beyond the family. It is this worldview that eventually came to characterize the Enlightenment and that still looms large in today's culture wars."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSex role$zUnited States$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aFamilies$zUnited States$xHistory$y17th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140512
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140411
852 00 $bushi$hHQ1075.5.U6$iN67 1996