Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America

by Merril D. Smith

Overview

This book offers a look at how the lives of women changed in the era when the United States emerged.

Spanning the broad spectrum of Colonial-era life, Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America is a revealing exploration of how 18-century American women of various races, classes, and religions were affected by conditions of the times—war, slavery, religious awakenings, political change, perceptions about gender—as well as how they influenced the world around them.

Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America covers the area of North America that became the United States and follows the transformation of the British colonies into a new nation. The book is organized thematically to examine marriage and the family, the law, work, travel, war, religion, and education and the arts. Each chapter combines current research and primary sources to offer authoritative portraits of real lives of the everyday women during this pivotal early era in our history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313355523
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/26/2010
Series:	Women's Roles through History
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Merril D. Smith is an independent scholar living in National Park, NJ.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Chronology xxi

1 Women, Marriage, and the Family 1

2 Women and the Law 31

3 Women and Work 55

4 Women and Travel 79

5 Women and War 99

6 Women and Religion 131

7 Women, Education, and the Arts 147

Selected Bibliography and Resources 169

Index 173

Editorial Reviews

Recommended. Undergraduate collections.” —Choice

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