Women's voices, women's lives : documents in early American history / edited by Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz.

Contributor Berkin, Carol.

Imprint:Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1998.

Descriptionxii, 203 p. ; 23 cm.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.x-xii)

Note:This collection is designed to provide an introduction to the lives of early American women, conveyed through their own words whenever possible rather than through commentary by the men around them.... We have organized the documents ... into the six categories indicated by the chapter titles: sex and reproduction, marriage and family, women's work, religion, politics and the legal system, and a changing gender ideology.... We have tried to include the voices of African American and Indian women as well as European, poor women as well as rich, women of the southern and middle colonies as well as New England. Our working premise [was that] that race, class, and region crosscut gender in every woman's life.... --Introduction

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