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"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.".
"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.
We 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.".
"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.
The 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.
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History, Politics and government, Social conditions, Sex role, Family, Families, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, United states, social conditions, to 1865, United states, politics and government, to 1775, Family, united statesPlaces
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Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
July 29, 1997, Vintage
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0679749772 9780679749776
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Founding Mothers & Fathers
October 15, 1997, Random House Value Publishing
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Founding mothers & fathers: gendered power and the forming of American society
1996, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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0679429654 9780679429654
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"IF ANYONE HAD HELD a "most dysfunctional family" contest in seventeenth-century New England, the clan headed by Nicholas Pinion, an iron worker, would have won easily."
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