Separated by their sex : women in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world /
Norton, Mary Beth.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press,
2011.
Spanning the period between the English Civil War in the 1640s through to the dawn of the American Revolutionary period, this work on gender identity and politics explores the development of the private sphere as an external and internalized tool that removed women from public political discourse. The work examines contemporary popular media as a polarizing force that drove women from a relatively egalitarian footing in political intellectual life to a new role indoors that would prevail in the external discourse and internal dialogues of the nation for centuries to come. Norton is a professor of history at Cornell University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."
Spanning the period between the English Civil War in the 1640s through to the dawn of the American Revolutionary period, this work on gender identity and politics explores the development of the private sphere as an external and internalized tool that removed women from public political discourse. The work examines contemporary popular media as a polarizing force that drove women from a relatively egalitarian footing in political intellectual life to a new role indoors that would prevail in the external discourse and internal dialogues of the nation for centuries to come. Norton is a professor of history at Cornell University.
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