Founding Mothers Fathers is a scholarly study of the
responsibilities and rewards New World colonists assigned to adults
solely on the basis of gender. Historian Mary Beth Norton asserts
that a changing world-view caused the limited power wielded by a
handful of early colonial women to trickle away by the time the
American Constitution was framed. Since nearly every moment of
daily life was subject to intense scrutiny by the entire community,
the court records and other public documents
內容簡介：
In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first
settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of
the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto
the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary
documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan,
whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may
have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case
of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church excommunicated her for
arguing that God had told husbands to listen to their wives. And
here is the enigma of Thomas, or Thomasine Hall, who lived
comfortably as both a man and a woman in 17th century Virginia.
Wonderfully erudite and vastly readable, Founding Mothers
Fathers reveals both the philosophical assumptions and intimate
domestic arrangements of our colonial ancestors in all their rigor,
strangeness, and unruly passion.
"An important, imaginative book. Norton destroys our nostalgic
image of a ''golden age'' of family life and re-creates a more
complex past whose assumptions and anxieties are still with
us."--Raleigh News and Observer
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