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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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Table des matières:
- 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."