FOUNDING MOTHERS & FATHERS(ISBN=9780679749776)
Founding Mothers Fathers is a scholarly study of theresponsibilities and rewards New World colonists assigned to adultssolely on the basis of gender. Historian Mary Beth Norton assertsthat a changing world-view caused the limited power wielded by ahandful of early colonial women to trickle away by the time theAmerican Constitution was framed. Since nearly every moment ofdaily life was subject to intense scrutiny by the entire community,the court records and other public documents Norton diligentlycombed to make her case are anything but dull, and the offenses andpunishments meted out speak loudly to the issues of genderedpower. Crystallizing the inflexibility of gender roles in the Americancolonies is the tale of a servant known as Thomasine or ThomasHall, alternately. Raised for two decades as a girl, Hall laterswitched several times between the clothes and roles of a man andthose of a woman. Although outraged townswomen repeatedly assuredcolonial authorities that Hall was physically male, his
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IN THE DEVIL'S SNARE(ISBN=9780375706905) 英文原版
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