Title Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies : patriarchy, partnership and patronage / Rosemary O'Day.

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London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (505 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Themes In British Social History
	Themes in British social history.
Contents	Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Dedication; Abbreviations; 1 General introduction; PART 1 Marrying: an active proposition; Introduction; 2 How and where were marriages solemnised?; 3 What was marriage? What was its purpose?; 4 Finding a partner among the landed aristocracy; 5 Making marriages among women of the professional and the middling sorts; PART 2 Experience of marriage; Introduction; 6 Attitudes to marriage; 7 Patriarchy; 8 Partnership and separation; 9 Mistress of the household: what wives did all day; 10 Mothers; 11 Wives and property.
	12 Widows and widowhoodPART 3 Culture and religion: women's preparation for and participation in contemporary culture; Introduction; 13 Women's formal and informal education; 14 Women and religion; 15 Contemporary culture: print and non-print, public and private; 16 Women's cultural lives: participation; Bibliography; Glossary; Subject index; Index of proper names.
Summary	Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but als.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
	Women.
	Great Britain.
	Social conditions.
	Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
	United States.
	Marriage -- Great Britain -- History.
	Marriage.
	History.
	Marriage -- United States -- History.
	Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Social conditions -- 16th-18th century.
	Colonies.
	America.
Chronological Term	16th-18th century
Subject	Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Marriage -- History -- 16th-18th century.
Chronological Term	1500-1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
	Marriage.
Other Form:	Print version: O'Day, Rosemary. Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780582294639
ISBN	9781317886310 (electronic book)
	1317886313 (electronic book)
	9781315841588 (e-book ; PDF)
	1315841584 (e-book ; PDF)
	9780582294639 (paperback)

Title Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies : patriarchy, partnership and patronage / Rosemary O'Day.

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