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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800 /

A collection of essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality. The volume illuminates the overarching theme by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bloch, Ruth H., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overviews. Theory : culturalist critique of feminist theory (1993). History : untangling the roots of modern sex roles₃ (1978)
  • Colonial transitions. Revaluing motherhood : American feminine ideals in transition : the rise of the moral mother, 1785-1815 (1978). Regulating courtship : women and the law of courtship in eighteenth century America (2001). Utilitarian vs. evangelical perspectives : women, love, and virtue in the thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993)
  • Revolutionary synthesis. Religion and sentimentalism : religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology (1994). Republican virtue : the gendered meanings of virtue in revolutionary America (1987). Public/private : gender and the public/private dichotomy in revolutionary thought.