Separated by their sex : women in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world

Publication Data

• Title Separated by their sex : women in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world
• Author Mary Beth Norton
• Publisher Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Ithaca, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

Lady Frances Berkeley and Virginia politics, 1675-1678
Mistress Alice Tilly and her supporters, 1649-1650
English women in the public realm, 1642-1653
Mistress Elinor James and her broadsides, 1681-1714
John Dunton and the invention of the feminine private
Mistress Sarah Kemble Knight and her journal, 1704
Women and politics, eighteenth century style
Lady Chatham and her correspondents, 1740s-1760s
Consolidating the feminine private
Conclusion : defining "women."

Topics

• Women :: United States :: History
• Women :: Great Britain :: History
• Women in public life :: United States :: History
• Women in public life :: Great Britain :: History
• United States :: History :: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• United States

Separated by their sex : women in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world by Mary Beth Norton. ISBN 9780801449499. Published by Cornell University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.