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Entangled lives : labor, livelihood, and landscapes of change in rural Massachusetts /

What was women's work truly like in late eighteenth-century America, and what does it tell us about the gendered social relations of labor in the early republic? In Entangled Lives, Marla R. Miller examines the lives of Anglo-, African, and Native American women in one rural New England communi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Marla R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Colección:Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : placings
  • From Nolwotogg to Hadley
  • Women, work, and the business of gentility : the view from forty acres
  • Women, work, and 'economies of makeshift' : the view from the back street
  • Domestic service
  • Making cloth
  • Hospitality work
  • Healing and caregiving
  • Working women and the domestic landscapes of Forty Acres
  • New labor, new landscapes
  • Coda : remembering women and work.