Founding Mothers & Fathers

Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

Mary Beth Norton, Norton Mary Beth

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Random House Inc
29 July 1997

History of the Americas; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Gender studies, gender groups; Gender studies: women; Social & cultural anthropology

In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan, whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church excommunicated her for arguing that God had told husbands to listen to their wives. And here is the enigma of Thomas, or Thomasine Hall, who lived comfortably as both a man and a woman in 17th century Virginia. Wonderfully erudite and vastly readable, Founding Mothers & Fathers reveals both the philosophical assumptions and intimate domestic arrangements of our colonial ancestors in all their rigor, strangeness, and unruly passion.

""An important, imaginative book. Norton destroys our nostalgic image of a 'golden age' of family life and re-creates a more complex past whose assumptions and anxieties are still with us.""--Raleigh News and Observer

By: Mary Beth Norton, Norton Mary Beth
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 382g
ISBN: 9780679749776
ISBN 10: 0679749772
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 29 July 1997
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger, a professor of American history at Cornell University. She is the author ofThe British-Americans- The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789(1972);Liberty's Daughters- The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800(1980);Founding Mothers & Fathers- Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society(1996), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and (with five others)A People and a Nation(6th ed., 2001). She has also edited several works on women's history and served as the general editor ofThe AHA Guide to Historical Literature(3rd ed., 1995).

Reviews for Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

John Mountjoy has done plenty of vile things to women, but he's always insisted that killing sexy journalist Britt Strand wasn't one of them. Now that he's broken out of Albany Prison and taken Assistant Chief Constable Tott's daughter hostage, the coppers will ruddy well have to listen to him. Mountjoy demands that the ACC bring in Peter Diamond as his negotiator, not knowing that Diamond quit the force shortly after wrapping up Mountjoy's case two years ago. From the moment that Diamond - who finds himself more sympathetic to desperate Mountjoy than to his smug, rule-bound former colleagues - takes over, it's obvious that veteran Lovesey has something special in mind: alternating a present-day tale of mounting suspense (the police keep flushing Mountjoy and Samantha Tott out of one bolt-hole after another as Diamond struggles to keep good and bad guys from killing each other) with a methodical after-the-fact whodunit (Diamond and his handpicked Watson, Julie Hargreaves, work like beavers on deadline to reopen Britt Strand's murder). A splendid idea worked out with surpassing ingenuity. Full marks to Diamond (Diamond Solitaire, 1993, etc.) and his inventive creator. (Kirkus Reviews)