Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine...
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This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden — and not always stoic — face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens — and the considerable power — of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising — and, all too often, mourning — her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
Part One: Bathsheba1. The Ways of Her Household2. Deputy Husbands3. A Friendly Neighbor4. Pretty GentlewomanPart Two: Eve5. The Serpent Beguiled Me6. Consort7. Travail8. Mother of All LivingPart Three: Jael9. Blessed Above Women10. Viragoes11. Captives12. Daughters of ZionAfterword
