{"product_id":"women-in-early-america-9781479890477","title":"Women in Early America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known women--both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrant--who lived and worked in not only British mainland America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the West Indies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these essays we learn about the conditions that women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American Revolution; enslaved in the President's house; and as students and educators inspired by the air of equality in the young nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFoster showcases the latest research of junior and senior historians, drawing from recent scholarship informed by women's and gender history--feminist theory, gender theory, new cultural history, social history, and literary criticism. Collectively, these essays address the need for scholarship on women's lives and experiences. \u003ci\u003eWomen in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e heeds the call of feminist scholars to not merely reproduce male-centered narratives, \"add women, and stir,\" but to rethink master narratives themselves so that we may better understand how women and men created and developed our historical past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoster, Thomas A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eThomas A. Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Howard University, in Washington, DC, and author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, and Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. He is also editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality (NYU Press, 2007), New Men: Manliness in Early America (NYU Press, 2011), and Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Foster tweets at @ThomasAFoster.pasting\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerkin, Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eCarol Berkin \u003c\/b\u003eis Presidential Professor of American Colonial and Revolutionary History and Women's History at Baruch College.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorgan, Jennifer L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJennifer L. Morgan \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504643870994,"sku":"9781479890477","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dbd33f18-11e2-4dc5-92ec-afe69e6584f1.jpg?v=1730824320","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/women-in-early-america-9781479890477","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}