Bibliograph

Women's work in New England, 1620-1920, editor, Peter Benes

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Women's work in New England, 1620-1920, editor, Peter Benes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women's work in New England, 1620-1920

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

52691139

Responsibility statement

editor, Peter Benes

Series statement

Annual proceedings Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 2001

Table Of Contents

Section I. Women and washing. Washing household linens and linen clothing in 1627 Plymouth / Maureen Richard -- Section II. Women and agriculture. Increase and vantage: Women, cows, and the agricultural economy of Colonial New England / Pamela J. Snow -- Constance Strong's diary: Women's work in North Pomfret, Vermont, 1910-1920 / Cameron Clifford -- Section III. Women as producers of textiles and clothing. "That leisure hour I seldon find": Hannah Hayden's work and family economy in frontier New York, 1806-1822 / Amber Degn -- "The fruit of my industry": economic roles and marital conflict in New England, 1790-1830 / Mary Beth Sievens -- One in every village: women in Maine who knit for others / Robin Hansen -- Section IV. Women in industry and communications. Number, please: New Hampshire Predial Telephone operators, 1877-1920 / Judith Moyer -- Section V. Abolitionists, missionaries, and memory makers. "We have all something to do in the cause of freeing the slave": The abolition work of Mary White / Mary B. Fuhrer -- A New England goodwife laboring in Oregon: Mary Richardson Walker, missionary pioneer / Judith M. Knowles -- Nantucket's memory keepers: Eliza Ann McCleave and the women of the Nantucket Historical Association / Aimee E. Newell -- Section VI. Gendered roles in healing and childbirth. The housewife as healer: medicine as women's work in Colonial New England / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum -- Women's travail, men's labor: birth stories from eighteenth-century New England diaries / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Section VII. Children and Servants. Eggs on the sand: Domestic servants and their children in Federal New England / Marla R. Miller -- Polish: The maintenance of manners / J. Coral Woodbury

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