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First Generations: Women in Colonial America

by Carol Berkin

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ISBN13: 9780809016068
ISBN10: 0809016060
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Traditional scholarship has tended to omit the obvious truth that European, Indian, and African women of 17th- and 18th-century America were critical actors in shaping the new nation's culture and history. FIRST GENERATIONS examines women as active participants in the creation of their society and, finally, gives early American women their proper place in history.

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Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied roles as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels, and, ultimately, critical forces in shaping the new nation's culture and history.

About the Author

Carol Berkin is Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History, and coeditor, with Mary Beth Norton, of Women of America: A History.

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Taynb, September 14, 2008 (view all comments by Taynb)
A very good book to learn about the women in colonial America up to the Revolutionary War. The trials and tribulations. The 'givens' on what women were able to do or not able to do, also those who defied those given rules of gender. The stories are from black and white, rich and poor, slave and indentured.
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ISBN:
9780809016068
Subtitle:
Women in Colonial America
Author:
Berkin, Carol
Publisher:
Hill & Wang
Location:
New York
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
United States - Colonial Period
Subject:
Women's Studies - History
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
Women -- United States -- History.
Edition Number:
1st pbk. ed.
Edition Description:
PAPERBACK
Series Volume:
838-9
Publication Date:
July 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
826x544x70 50

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