Social historian Roger Thompson brings the forgotten and faceless men and women in 17th-century Massachusetts to suggest that records from Middlesex County of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay show that the puritan social system was not so rigid and the relationships between sexes not so regulated as some historians have suggested. The argument of 'Sex in Middlesex' is revisionist: the 'puritans' and 'theocrats' who throng its pages do not behave in accordance with popular stereotype or conform tot he interpretations of major historians.
- ISBN13 9780870236563
- Publish Date 30 June 2012 (first published 1 August 1986)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English