TY  - GEN
AU  - Eldridge,Larry D.
TI  - Women and freedom in early America
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Women
N1  - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index; Part I : Race, ethnicity, and gender --; Gender and the longhouse : Iroquois women in a changing culture; Gretchen L. Green --; Women of the New France noblesse; Jan V. Noel --; Princesses, wives, and wenches : White perceptions of Southeastern Indian women in 1770; Eirlys M. Barker --; Freedom among African women servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century British colonies; Lillian Ashcraft-Eason --; Part II : Religion --; "My dear liberty" : Quaker spinsterhood and female autonomy in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania; Karin A. Wulf --; Women, religion, and freedom in New France; Terrence A. Crowley --; Wise virgins and pious mothers : Spiritual community among Baptist women of the Delaware Valley; Janet More Lindman --; Part III : Work and the colonial economy --; "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; Judith A. Ridner --; Women and economic freedom in the North Carolina backcountry; Johanna Miller Lewis --; Part IV : Marriage and the family --; "Whers gone to she knows not" : Desertion and widowhood in early Pennsylvania; Merril D. Smith --; The marriage metaphor in seventeenth-century Massachusetts; Elizabeth Dale --; "If widow, both housewife and husband may be" : Widows' testamentary freedom in colonial Massachusetts and Maryland; Vivian Bruce Conger --; Part V : Society and the courts --; Women of "No particular home" : Town leaders and female transients in Rhode Island, 1750-1800; Ruth Wallis Herndon --; The free women of Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, 1630-1740; Julie Richter --; Mitigating inequality : Women and justice in colonial New York; Deborah A. Rosen
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb06442
ER  -