num_pages: 296
description: This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
language: English
title: Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
titlecomplete: Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
genres: Gender, American, Historical, Womens, Womens Studies, American History, Feminism, Nonfiction, Gender Studies, History
ratings_count: 1706
publisher: Vintage