Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New WorldThis volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of the lives of early American women and showing how these women adapted to the challenges of daily life in the colonies. The coverage begins with the 1607 settlement at Jamestown and ends with the War of 1812. In addition to the role of Anglo-American women, the experiences of African, French, Dutch, and Native American women are discussed. The issues discussed include how women coped with rural isolation, why they were prone to superstitions, who was likely to give birth out of wedlock, and how they raised large families while coping with immense household responsibilities.
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Colonial corsets were not nearly as restrictive as the excruciatingly tight corsets of the Antebellum and Victorian eras . Corsets from the American colo- nial era reveal that most had waistlines ranging between twenty - four and thirty ...
Further Reading Hammond , Charles A. " The Dilemmas of Domestic Service in New England , 1750–1850 . ” Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 13 ( 1988 ) : 58-87 . Main , Gloria L. “ Gender , Work , and Wages in Colonial New England .
Colonial Women of Affairs : Women in Business and the Professions in America before 1776. Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1931. Overview of women involved in trade , medicine , education , pub- lishing , and craftsmanship .
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American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic Phillip M. White Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |