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Separated by Their Sex : Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World /

In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Norton, Mary Beth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lady Frances Berkeley and Virginia politics, 1675-1678
  • Mistress Alice Tilly and her supporters, 1649-1650
  • English women in the public realm, 1642-1653
  • Mistress Elinor James and her broadsides, 1681-1714
  • John Dunton and the invention of the feminine private
  • Mistress Sarah Kemble Knight and her journal, 1704
  • Women and politics, eighteenth century style
  • Lady Chatham and her correspondents, 1740s-1760s
  • Consolidating the feminine private
  • Conclusion : defining "women."