Women's agency in early modern Britain and the American colonies
Subtitle: patriarchy, partnership and patronage
By: Rosemary O'Day.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Themes in British social history
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Harlow, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780582294639
Subjects: Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.; Women -- United States -- Social conditions.; Marriage -- Great Britain -- History.; Marriage -- United States -- History.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Social conditions -- 16th-18th centuries.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Marriage -- America -- History -- 16th-18th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-475) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: General introduction; title: How and where were marriages solemnised?; title: What was marriage? What was its purpose?; title: Finding a partner among the landed aristocracy; title: Making marriages among women of the professional and the middling sorts; title: Attitudes to marriage; title: Patriarchy; title: Partnership and separation; title: Mistress of the household : what wives did all day; title: Mothers; title: Wives and property; title: Widows and widowhood; title: Women's formal and informal education; title: Women and religion; title: Contemporary culture : print and non-print, public and private; title: Women's cultural lives : participation.