The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970
Anne Hutchinson--the wife of a Boston merchant and mother of fifteen children--defied the Calvinist clergy by holding meetings and espousing a controversial religious stance. When asked to stop, she did not, and as a result of her outspokenness, she was subjected to two trials, then...
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Anne Hutchinson--the wife of a Boston merchant and mother of fifteen children--defied the Calvinist clergy by holding meetings and espousing a controversial religious stance. When asked to stop, she did not, and as a result of her outspokenness, she was subjected to two trials, then excommunicated and exiled upstate New York. She was held as the model of an American Jezebel, a female transgressor who threatened the community with social chaos and sexual impropriety. But this book skillfully reveals, what was really on trial was not Anne Hutchinson but the expression of public womanhood.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195090451 (0195090454)
Publish date: May 19th 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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