Women and freedom in early America  [electronic resource] / 
 Women & freedom in early America 
edited by Larry D. Eldridge. 
 - New York :  New York University Press,  c1997. 
 - xii, 354 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/> E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal  American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/ 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index. 
<br/><br/> Gender and the longhouse : Iroquois women in a changing culture /  Women of the New France noblesse /  Princesses, wives, and wenches : White perceptions of Southeastern Indian women in 1770 /  Freedom among African women servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century British colonies /  "My dear liberty" : Quaker spinsterhood and female autonomy in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania /  Women, religion, and freedom in New France /  Wise virgins and pious mothers : Spiritual community among Baptist women of the Delaware Valley /  "What Providence has brought them to be" : Widows, work, and the print culture of colonial Charleston --  "To have a sufficient maintenance" : Women and the economics of freedom in frontier Pennsylvania, 1750-1800 /  Women and economic freedom in the North Carolina backcountry /  "Whers gone to she knows not" : Desertion and widowhood in early Pennsylvania /  The marriage metaphor in seventeenth-century Massachusetts /  "If widow, both housewife and husband may be" : Widows' testamentary freedom in colonial Massachusetts and Maryland /  Women of "No particular home" : Town leaders and female transients in Rhode Island, 1750-1800 /  The free women of Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, 1630-1740 /  Mitigating inequality : Women and justice in colonial New York /  Gretchen L. Green --  Jan V. Noel --  Eirlys M. Barker --  Lillian Ashcraft-Eason --  Karin A. Wulf --  Terrence A. Crowley --  Janet More Lindman --  Judith A. Ridner --  Johanna Miller Lewis --  Merril D. Smith --  Elizabeth Dale --  Vivian Bruce Conger --  Ruth Wallis Herndon --  Julie Richter --  Deborah A. Rosen.  Part I : Race, ethnicity, and gender --  Part II : Religion --  Part III : Work and the colonial economy --  Part IV : Marriage and the family --  Part V : Society and the courts -- 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb06442  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Women