This book offers a look at how the lives of women changed in the era when the United States emerged.
Spanning the broad spectrum of Colonial-era life, Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America is a revealing exploration of how 18-century American women of various races, classes, and religions were affected by conditions of the times-war, slavery, religious awakenings, political change, perceptions about gender-as well as how they influenced the world around them.
Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America covers the area of North America that became the United States and follows the transformation of the British colonies into a new nation. The book is organized thematically to examine marriage and the family, the law, work, travel, war, religion, and education and the arts. Each chapter combines current research and primary sources to offer authoritative portraits of real lives of the everyday women during this pivotal early era in our history.
- Offers a chronology of social, political, and cultural events in 18th-century America that involved or affected women
- Includes 16 portraits, cartoons, illustrations of women, women's work, and events in 18th-century America
- ISBN10 6612492066
- ISBN13 9786612492068
- Publish Date 28 February 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint ABC-CLIO
- Format eBook
- Pages 250
- Language English