{"id":8389,"date":"2023-07-16T17:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T22:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2023-07-16T17:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T22:25:48","slug":"reading-list-for-studies-of-colonial-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/reading-list-for-studies-of-colonial-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List for Studies of Colonial Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Morse Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days (New York: Macmillan, 1898)<br \/>\nAlice Clark, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Harcourt, Braqce, and Howe, 1920)<br \/>\nElizabeth Dexter, Colonial Women of Affairs:A Study of Women in Business and the Professions in America Before 1776 (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1924)<br \/>\nMary Sumner Benson, Women in Eighteenth-Century America: A Study of Opinion and Usage (Port Washington, NY: Columbia University Press, 1935)<br \/>\nJulia Spruill, Women&#8217;s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (New York: Russell and Russell, 1938)<br \/>\nMary Beard, Woman as a Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (New York: Macmillan, 1946).<br \/>\nRichard B. Morris, &#8220;Women&#8217;s Rights in Early American Law,&#8221; in Studies in the History of American Law with Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Colonies (Philadelphia, J.M. Mitchell C., 1959)<br \/>\nCarl, Holiday, Women&#8217;s Life in Colonial Days (New York: Ungar, 1960)<br \/>\nEdmund Morgan, The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England (New York: Harper and Row, 1966)<br \/>\nJohn Demos, A Little Commonwealth (1970)<br \/>\nAlexander Kayssar, &#8220;Widowhood in Eighteenth Century Massachusetts: A Problem in the History of the Family,&#8221; in Perspectives in American History (1974); Mary P. Ryan, (1975)<br \/>\nD. Kelly Weisberg,&#8221;&#8216;Under Greet Temptations Heer&#8217;: Women and Divorce in Colonial Massachusetts,&#8221; Feminist Studies, 2 (1975)<br \/>\nLois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, &#8220;The Planter&#8217;s Wife: the Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland,&#8221; William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 34 (1977), 542-571<br \/>\nMarilyn Salmon, &#8220;Equity or Subversion? Feme Covert Status in Early Pennsylvania,&#8221; in Women in America: A History, ed. Carol Ruth Berkin.<br \/>\nCarol Hymowitz, and Michael Weissman, A History of Women in America (New York: Bantam Books, 1978), 1-25<br \/>\nLorena S. Walsh, &#8220;&#8216;Till Death Do Us Part&#8217;: Marriage and Family in Seventeenth-Century Maryland,&#8221; in The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society, eds. Thad W. Tate and David Ammerman (Chapel Hill, NC: 1979)<br \/>\nLyle Koehler, A Search for Power: The Weaker Sex in Seventeenth-Century New England (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980)<br \/>\nLaurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)<br \/>\nJoan Alexander, Voices and Echoes: Tales From Colonial Women (New York: Quartet Books, 1983)<br \/>\nMary Beth Norton, &#8220;The Evolution of White Women&#8217;s Experience in Early America,&#8221; American Historical Review 89 (June1986), 593-619<br \/>\nSteven Mintz, and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (New York: Free Press, 1988), 1-42<br \/>\nSara Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (New York: Free Press, 1989)<br \/>\nHelena S. Wall, Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America (Cambridge Ma: Harvard University Press, 1990)<br \/>\nDavid R. Ransome, &#8220;Wives for Virginia, 1621,&#8221; William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 48 (January 1991), 3-18<br \/>\nJoyce D. Goodfriend, Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992)<br \/>\nCarole Shammas, et al, &#8220;Anglo-American Household Government in Comparative Perspective,&#8221; William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 53 (January 1995), 104-166<br \/>\nCarol Berkin, First Generation: Women in Colonial America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996)<\/p>\n<h2>Native American Women<\/h2>\n<p>Robert Grumet, &#8220;Sunksquaws, Shamans, and Tradeswomen: Middle Atlantic Coastal Algonkian Women during the 17th and 18th Centuries,&#8221; in Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives, ed. Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock, (New York: Praeger, 1980).<br \/>\nNancy Shoemaker, Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspective on Native American Women (New York: Routledge, 1995)<br \/>\nBarry J. Neilson, &#8220;Madam Dorion of the Astorians,&#8221; Oregon Historical Quarterly (Sept. 1929)<br \/>\nAnthony F.C.Wallace, &#8220;Women, Land, and Society: Three Aspects of Colonial Delaware Life,&#8221; Pennsylvania Archeologist 17 (1947), 1-35<br \/>\nMartha C. Rundle, &#8220;Iroquois Women, Then and Now&#8221; in Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture, ed, William N. Fenton, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 149 (Wash. D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951)<br \/>\nWalter A. O&#8217;Meara, Daughters of the Country: The Women of the Fur Traders and Mountain Men (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1968)<br \/>\nLouise S. Spindler, Menomini Women and Culture Change (New York: Millwood, Kraus Reprint, 1974)<br \/>\nJean Johnston, &#8220;Molly Brant Mohawk Matron,&#8221; Ontario History, 56 (June 1964): 105-24<br \/>\nPhilip Barbour, Pocahontas and Her World (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970)<br \/>\nJudith Brown, &#8220;Economic Organization and the Position of Women among the Iroquois,&#8221; Ethnohistory 17, (1970)<br \/>\nSara Evans, &#8220;The First American Women,&#8221; in Sara Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (New York: Free Press, 1989)<br \/>\nRuth Landes, The Ojibwa Women (New York: Norton, 1971)<br \/>\nJohn Upton Terrell and Donna M. Terrell, Indian Women of the Western Morning: Their Life in Early America (New York: Dial, 1974)<br \/>\nEleanor Leacock and Jacqueline Goodman, &#8220;Montagnais Marriage and the Jesuits in the Seventeenth Century: Incidents from the Relations of Paul Le Jeune,&#8221; Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology 6 (1976): 77-91<br \/>\nRayna Green, &#8220;Native American Women,&#8221; Signs 6 (Winter 1980), 248-267<br \/>\nJoan Jensen, &#8220;Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study,&#8221; Sex Roles 3\/5 (1977), 432-441<br \/>\nLaura F. Klein, &#8220;Contending with Colonization: Tinglit Men and Women in Change,&#8221; in Women and Colonization, Etienne and Leacock (1980)<br \/>\nEleanor Leacock, &#8220;Montagnais Women and the Jesuit Program for Colonization,&#8221; in Women and Colonization, Etienne and Leacock (1980)<br \/>\nDiane Rothenberg, &#8220;The Mothers of the Nation: Seneca Resistance to a Quaker Intervention,&#8221; in Women and Colonization, Etienne and Leacock (1980)<br \/>\nMargaret C. Szasz, &#8220;Poor Richard Meets the Native American: Schooling for Young Indian Women in the Eighteenth Century Connecticut,&#8221; Pacific Historical Review, XLIX, No. 2 (1980): 215-35<br \/>\nAlice Kehoe, North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1981)<br \/>\nNeal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (New York, 1982)<br \/>\nDaniel Richter, &#8220;War and Culture: the Iroquois Experience,&#8221; William and Mary Quarterly, 53 (Oct. 1983), 528-59<br \/>\nJacqueline Petersen, The New Peoples: Being &#038; Becoming Metis in North America (Chicago: University of Illinois, 1985)<br \/>\nHelen C. Roundtree, Pocahontas&#8217; People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries (1990)<br \/>\nKaren Anderson, Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France (New York: Routledge, 1991)<br \/>\nCarol, Devens, Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Mission, 1630-1900 (Berkeley: University of California, 1992)<br \/>\nNatalie Z. Davis, &#8220;Iroquois Women, European Women,&#8221; in Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, eds., Women, &#8220;Race,&#8221; and Writing (London: Routledge, 1994)<br \/>\nLaura F. Klein, and Lillian A. Ackerman, Women and Power in Native North America (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).<br \/>\nMary E. Young. &#8220;Women, Civilization and the Indian Question,&#8221; in Mabel E. Deutrich and Virginia C. Purdy, eds, Clio was a Woman (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1980), 98-110.<br \/>\nNancy Shoemaker, &#8220;Kateri Tekakwitha&#8217;s Tortuous Path to Sainthood,&#8221; in Negotiators of Change, Shoemaker (1995).<\/p>\n<h2>African-American Women<\/h2>\n<p>Jean R. Soderlund, &#8220;Black Women in Colonial Pennsylvania,&#8221; in Our American Sisters: Women in American Life and Thought (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1987)<br \/>\nWilliam Piersen, Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1988).<br \/>\nEdmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial America (New York: Norton, 1975)<br \/>\nCarole Shammas, &#8220;Black Women&#8217;s Work and the Evolution of Plantation Society in Virginia,&#8221; Labor History 26 (1985), 5-28<br \/>\nAllan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (Williamsburg, VA: University of North Carolina Press, 1986).<\/p>\n<h2>Witches, Quakers, and Jezebels<\/h2>\n<p>Emery Battis, Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by University of North Carolina Press, 1962)<br \/>\nHoratio Rogers, &#8220;Mary Dyer Did Hang Like a Flag,&#8221; in The Quaker Reader, ed. Jessamyn West (New York: Viking Press, 1962), 168-175<br \/>\nPaul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974)<br \/>\nMary Maples Dunn, &#8220;Saints and Sisters: Congregational and Quaker Women in the Early Colonial Period,&#8221; American Quarterly, 30 (Winter 1978), 582-601, and &#8220;Women of Light,&#8221; in Women of America: A History, eds. Carol Ruth Berkin and Mary Beth Norton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979)<br \/>\nLyle Koehler, &#8220;The Case of the American Jezebels: Anne Hutchinson and Female Agitation During the Years of the Antinomian Turmoil, 1636-1640,&#8221; in Women&#8217;s America: Refocusing the Past, eds. Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart Mathews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982)<br \/>\nJohn Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982)<br \/>\nAnnette Kolodny, The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1984), 17-34.<br \/>\nN.E.H. Hull, Female Felons: Women and Serious Crime in Colonial Massachusetts (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1987)<br \/>\nMary Beth Norton, &#8220;Gender and Defamation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland,&#8221; William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 44 (January 1987), 3-39.<br \/>\nJean R. Soderlund, &#8220;Women&#8217;s Authority in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quaker Meetings, 1680-1760,&#8221; William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 44 (1987), 722-749<br \/>\nCarol F. Karlsen, Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (New York: Norton, 1987)<br \/>\nElizabeth Potts Brown and Susan Mosher Stuart, eds., Witnesses for Change: Quaker Women Over Three Centuries (New Brunswick, N.J.: 1989).<br \/>\nMary Beth Norton, &#8220;Gender, Crime, and Community in Seventeenth Century Maryland,&#8221; in The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority, and Ideology, eds. James Henretta, Michael Kammen, and Stanley N. Katz (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)<br \/>\nJune Namias, White Captives: Gender and Ethhnicity on the American Frontier (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).<br \/>\nDavid R. Sewell, &#8220;&#8216;So Unstable and Like Mad Men They Were&#8217;: Language and Interpretation in Early American Captivity Narratives,&#8221; in A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America , ed. Frank Shuffleton (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).<br \/>\nDaniel Williams, &#8220;The Gratification of that Corrupt and Lawless Passion: Character Types and Themes in Early New England Rape Narratives,&#8221; in A Mixed Race, Shuffelton (1993)<br \/>\nKathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 1996).<br \/>\nFrances Hill, A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (New York: Doubleday, 1995)<br \/>\nMarc Mappen, ed., Witches and Historians: Interpretations of Salem 2nd ed. (Malabar, FL: Krieger Publications, 1996)<br \/>\nMarilynne K. Roach, In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1996)<br \/>\nCatherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds., The Devil&#8217;s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).<br \/>\nCharles Peter Hoffer, The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1997).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Morse Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days (New York: Macmillan, 1898) Alice Clark, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Harcourt, Braqce, and Howe, 1920) Elizabeth Dexter, Colonial Women of Affairs:A Study of Women in Business and the Professions in America Before 1776 (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1924) Mary Sumner Benson, Women in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-background"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-2bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/women-colonial-america.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8393,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions\/8393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}