Women's work in New England, 1620-1920
By: editor, Peter Benes ; assoc. ed., Jane Montague Benes.
Contributors: Benes, Peter.; Benes, Jane Montague.
Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings -- 2001; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) -- 2001.
Publisher: Boston University
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- New England -- Congresses.; Women -- Social conditions -- New England -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220).
Table of contents: title: Section I. Women and washing. Washing household linens and linen clothing in 1627 Plymouth / Maureen Richard; title: Section II. Women and agriculture. Increase and vantage: Women, cows, and the agricultural economy of Colonial New England / Pamela J. Snow; title: Constance Strong's diary: Women's work in North Pomfret, Vermont, 1910-1920 / Cameron Clifford; title: Section III. Women as producers of textiles and clothing. "That leisure hour I seldon find": Hannah Hayden's work and family economy in frontier New York, 1806-1822 / Amber Degn; title: "The fruit of my industry": economic roles and marital conflict in New England, 1790-1830 / Mary Beth Sievens; title: One in every village: women in Maine who knit for others / Robin Hansen; title: Section IV. Women in industry and communications. Number, please: New Hampshire Predial Telephone operators, 1877-1920 / Judith Moyer; title: Section V. Abolitionists, missionaries, and memory makers. "We have all something to do in the cause of freeing the slave": The abolition work of Mary White / Mary B. Fuhrer; title: A New England goodwife laboring in Oregon: Mary Richardson Walker, missionary pioneer / Judith M. Knowles; title: Nantucket's memory keepers: Eliza Ann McCleave and the women of the Nantucket Historical Association / Aimee E. Newell; title: Section VI. Gendered roles in healing and childbirth. The housewife as healer: medicine as women's work in Colonial New England / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum; title: Women's travail, men's labor: birth stories from eighteenth-century New England diaries / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich; title: Section VII. Children and Servants. Eggs on the sand: Domestic servants and their children in Federal New England / Marla R. Miller; title: Polish: The maintenance of manners / J. Coral Woodbury.