{"product_id":"american-jezebel-the-uncommon-life-of-anne-hutchinson-the-woman-who-defied-the-puritans-9780060750565","title":"American Jezebel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner \"not comely for  her] sex.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by one of Hutchinson's direct descendants, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Jezebel\u003c\/em\u003e brings both balance and perspective to Hutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its complexity, presenting her not as a religious fanatic, a cardboard feminist, or a raging crank--as some have portrayed her--but as a flesh-and-blood wife, mother, theologian, and political leader. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion from Massachusetts, after which her judges, still threatened by her challenges, promptly built Harvard College to enforce religious and social orthodoxies--making her the mid-wife to the nation's first college. In exile, she settled Rhode Island, becoming the only woman ever to co-found an American colony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in the story of this one woman's courageous life. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Jezebel\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom, equal rights, and free speech, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements are astonishing by the standards of any era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaplante, Eve:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eEve LaPlante, a sixth great-granddaughter of Samuel Sewall, is the author of two previous critically acclaimed books: \u003cem\u003eAmerican Jezebel\u003c\/em\u003e, a biography of her ancestor Anne Hutchinson, and \u003cem\u003eSeized\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrative portrait of temporal lobe epilepsy. LaPlante has degrees from Princeton and Harvard and has written for \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBoston\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. She lives with her family in New England on land once owned by Judge Sewall. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645345075474,"sku":"9780060750565","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6499869a-ea67-4afc-ad79-d1b31488e92d.jpg?v=1733149767","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/american-jezebel-the-uncommon-life-of-anne-hutchinson-the-woman-who-defied-the-puritans-9780060750565","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}