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Women in Stuart England and America

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A Comparative Study

Women in Stuart England and America

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Women in Stuart England and America book

A Comparative Study
ByRoger Thompson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1974
eBook Published 18 September 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203098370
Pages 288
eBook ISBN 9780203098370
Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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Thompson, R. (1974). Women in Stuart England and America: A Comparative Study (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203098370

ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1974, this study offers valuable perspectives on the status and roles of women in Stuart England and in the newly settled colonies of North America, particularly Massachusetts and Virginia. Incorporating both new research on the subject, and the findings of other scholars on demographic and social history, the author examines the effects of sex ratios, economic opportunities, Puritanism and frontier conditions on the emancipation of American women in comparison with their English counterparts. He discusses the effects of these major differences on women’s roles in courtship, marriage and the family, educational, legal and civic opportunities. In the final chapter, he compares the moral climate of the two cultures in the latter part of the seventeenth century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part I Introduction

chapter 1|16 pages

The Seventeenth-Century Scene

part |2 pages

Part II A New World

chapter 2|39 pages

The Sex Ratio

chapter 3|22 pages

Economic Opportunities

chapter 4|20 pages

Women and the Puritan Churches

chapter 5|9 pages

Women and the Frontier

part |2 pages

Part III Cultural Contrasts

chapter 6|32 pages

Courtship and Marriage

chapter 7|16 pages

The Family

chapter 8|26 pages

Women's Legal Position and Rights

chapter 9|34 pages

Women's Education in England and the Colonies

chapter 10|7 pages

The Vote

chapter 11|31 pages

The Moral Tone of Society

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