Separated by their sex
Subtitle: women in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world
By: Mary Beth Norton
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780801449499
Subjects: Women in public life; Women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lady Frances Berkeley and Virginia politics, 1675-1678; title: Mistress Alice Tilly and her supporters, 1649-1650; title: English women in the public realm, 1642-1653; title: Mistress Elinor James and her broadsides, 1681-1714; title: John Dunton and the invention of the feminine private; title: Mistress Sarah Kemble Knight and her journal, 1704; title: Women and politics, eighteenth century style; title: Lady Chatham and her correspondents, 1740s-1760s; title: Consolidating the feminine private; title: Conclusion : defining "women."