In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave trade during this period. This volume provides the essential overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century, as the dominant European settlers established their patriarchy. Women were essential to the existence of a new patriarchal society, most importantly because they were necessary for its reproduction. In addition to their...

The twentieth century was a time of great transformation in the roles of American women. Women have always worked and raised families, but, theoretically, the world opened up to them with new opportunities to participate fully in society, from voting, to controlling their reproductive cycle, to running a Fortune 500 company. This content-rich overview of women's roles in the modern age is a must-have for every library to fill the gap in resources about women's lives. Students and general readers will trace the development of American women of different classes and ethnicities in education,...

Spanning the broad spectrum of Colonial-era life, "Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America" is a revealing exploration of how 18-century American women of various races, classes, and religions were affected by conditions of the times--war, slavery, religious awakenings, political change, perceptions about gender--as well as how they influenced the world around them.

"Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America" covers the area of North America that became the United States and follows the transformation of the British colonies into a new nation. The book is organized thematically to...