Title: Dangerous to know
Description: "In Dangerous to Know, Susan Branson follows the fascinating lives of Ann Carson and Mary Clarke, offering an engaging study of gender and class in the early nineteenth century. According to Branson, episodes in both women's lives illustrate their struggles within a society that constrained women's activities and ambitions. She argues that both women simultaneously tried to conform to and manipulate the dominant sexual, economic, and social ideologies of the time. In their own lives and through their writing, the pair challenged conventions prescribed by these ideologies to further their own ends and redefine what was possible for women in early American public life."--Jacket.
Subjects: American Women authors, Biography, Crime, Fame, Female offenders, History, Sex role, Social aspects of Crime, Social aspects of Fame, Social conditions, Social status, Women, Women, united states, biography, Women authors, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Crime, united states, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Soziale Schichtung, Weibliche Kriminelle, Geschlechterrolle, Philadelphia (pa.), social conditions, Social aspects
Places: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Pa.), United States
People: Ann Baker Carson, Mary Clarke (fl. 1815-1838)
Time periods: 19th century