Founding Mothers & Fathers
Subtitle: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
Publisher: Vintage
Published: July 29, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780679749776
Subjects: United States - Colonial Period; Sex role; History; History - General History; History: American; Women's Studies - History; United States; Gender Studies; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); 17th century; Family; Social conditions
First sentence: IF ANYONE HAD HELD a "most dysfunctional family" contest in seventeenth-century New England, the clan headed by Nicholas Pinion, an iron worker, would have won easily.