ISBN:
9780520936478
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0520936477
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0585467781
,
9780585467788
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 225 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800
DDC:
305.40973
Keywords:
Women History
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United States
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Sex role History
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United States
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Women colonists History
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United States
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Ethics History
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United States
;
Sex role History
;
Women colonists History
;
Ethics History
;
Women History
;
Ethics History
;
Women colonists History
;
Women History
;
Sex role History
;
Women
;
Women colonists
;
Sekseverschillen
;
Vrouwen
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Ethische aspecten
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Religieuze aspecten
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Gender Studies & Sexuality
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Gender & Ethnic Studies
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Social Sciences
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RELIGION ; Christianity ; General
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Ethics
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Sex role
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
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History
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United States History
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Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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United States
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United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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United States
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Britse koloniën
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Verenigde Staten
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
A collection of essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality. The volume illuminates the overarching theme by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did?
Description / Table of Contents:
Overviews. Theory : culturalist critique of feminist theory (1993). History : untangling the roots of modern sex roles₃ (1978)Colonial transitions. Revaluing motherhood : American feminine ideals in transition : the rise of the moral mother, 1785-1815 (1978). Regulating courtship : women and the law of courtship in eighteenth century America (2001). Utilitarian vs. evangelical perspectives : women, love, and virtue in the thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993) -- Revolutionary synthesis. Religion and sentimentalism : religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology (1994). Republican virtue : the gendered meanings of virtue in revolutionary America (1987). Public/private : gender and the public/private dichotomy in revolutionary thought.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-215) and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520234055.001.0001
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