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Subject(s)

• Women—United States—History [Browse]
• Women colonists—United States—History [Browse]
• United States—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 [Browse]
• Sex role—United States—History [Browse]
• Ethics—United States—History [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-215) and index.

Contents

• Overviews. Theory : culturalist critique of feminist theory (1993). History : untangling the roots of modern sex roles₃ (1978)
• Colonial transitions. Revaluing motherhood : American feminine ideals in transition : the rise of the moral mother, 1785-1815 (1978). Regulating courtship : women and the law of courtship in eighteenth century America (2001). Utilitarian vs. evangelical perspectives : women, love, and virtue in the thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993)
• Revolutionary synthesis. Religion and sentimentalism : religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology (1994). Republican virtue : the gendered meanings of virtue in revolutionary America (1987). Public/private : gender and the public/private dichotomy in revolutionary thought.

ISBN

• 0520234057 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520234065 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002003987

OCLC

49415634

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