Household Authority in Early America, 1600-1815

Reading List

Household Authority in Early America, 1600-1815

Modern History Honours Module MO 3109

Dr. Sarah Pearsall

These topics roughly correspond to those on the weekly discussion list, but there are some additions. These additional items might be used in your essays or in general revision.The astericks signify that those readings are essential for the class presentations. The double astericks refer to the reading that everyone should do even if they do nothing else that week. Otherwise, we will just have to sit there, silent and glum.

Back issues of key journals (William and Mary Quarterly, American Historical Review, and Journal of American History, among others) can be found online on networked computers, at http://www.jstor.ac.uk. Newer issues of WMQ and other journals can be found online at http://www.historycoop.org. Another useful online resource is the early American journal, Common-Place, at http://www.common-place.org

I. General/Background:

Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. New York: Penguin, 2001 (especially Parts II and III).

Hewitt, Nancy A., ed. A Companion to American Women’s History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Shammas, Carole. A History of Household Government in America. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2002.

Berkin, Carol, and Leslie Horowitz, eds. Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Documents in Early American History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.

Hoffman, Ronald, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute, eds. Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, 1997.

St. George, Robert Blair, ed. Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Eldridge, Larry D., ed. Women and Freedom in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron De Hart, eds. Women’s America: Refocusing the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ruiz, Vicki L., and Ellen Carol DuBois, eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History. London: Routledge, 2000.

Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.

II.  Entering an Early American Household

**Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Random House, Inc., 1990. At least Intro, Ch 1.

**Website: http://www.dohistory.org

**Forum on the Household: The William and Mary Quarterly 52:1 (Jan., 1995).

See especially Carole Shammas, “Anglo-American Household Government in Comparative Perspective”

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00435597%28199501%293%3A52%3A1%3C104%3AAHGICP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

**Tadmor, Naomi. “The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth-Century England.” Past & Present, no. 151 (1996): 11-140. (PACKET)

Brown, Kathleen M. “Beyond the Great Debates: Gender and Race.” Reviews in American History 26 (1998) 96-123.

Scott, Joan Wallach “Gender: A Useful Category of Analysis,” American Historical Review, 91 (Dec. 1986)

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198612%2991%3A5%3C1053%3AGAUCOH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

Kerber, Linda K. “Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History.” Journal of American History 75 (1988) 9-39.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00218723%28198806%2975%3A1%3C9%3ASSFWWP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L

Kerber, Linda, et al. “Beyond Roles, Beyond Spheres: Thinking About Gender in the Early Republic,” William and Mary Quarterly 46 (1989) 565-585.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28198907%293%3A46%3A3%3C565%3ABRBSTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J

Vickery, Amanda J. “Golden Age to Separate Spheres: A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women’s History.” Historical Journal 36 (1993) 383-414.

Klein, Lawrence. “Gender and the Public/Private Distinction in the Eighteenth Century: Some Questions about Evidence and Analytic Procedure.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 (1995) 97-109.

Brown, Kathleen M. “ Brave New Worlds: Women’s and Gender History.” William and Mary Quarterly 50 (1993): 311-327.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199304%293%3A50%3A2%3C311%3ABNWWAG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D

III.  Gender Frontiers

**Hariot, Thomas. “A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia,” by Thomas Hariot, 1588.

(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/jamestown-browse?id=J1009)

**White, John. “The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in that Part of America Now Called Virginia” by John White(?), 1584 & 1588.

(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/jamestown-browse?id=J1009b)

**Brown, Kathleen M. “The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier,” in Nancy Shoemaker, ed. Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women (New York: Routledge,1995). (PACKET)

**Fischer, Kirsten. “The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes,” in Nancy A. Hewitt, ed. A Companion to American Women’s History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002: 3-19. (PACKET)

*Plane, Ann Marie. Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1996. Chapters 1-2.

Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Hodes, Martha, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Articles by Richard Godbeer and Daniel Mandell.

Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women : Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

IV.  An Orderly Society?

**McIlwaine, H. R. ed. Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676 (PACKET)

**Vaughan, Alden T. “The Sad Case of Thomas(ine) Hall,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (PACKET)

**Brown, Kathleen M. “‘Changed…into the fashion of man’: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 (1995) 179-193. (PACKET)

**Norton, Mary Beth. “Communal Definitions of Gendered Identity in Seventeenth-Century English America,” in Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute, Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press for IEAHC, 1997). (PACKET)

**Norton, Mary Beth. “Either Married or to Bee Married”: Women’s Legal Inequality in Early America” in Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger, eds. Inequality in Early America. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999. 25-45. (PACKET)

Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. “The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland.” William and Mary Quarterly34 (1977): 542-571.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28197710%293%3A34%3A4%3C542%3ATPWTEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X

Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Chapters on Chesapeake.

V.  Sons and Daughters of Zion

** Witchcraft Cases of Godman, Godfrey, and Holmans in David D. Hall, ed. Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. (PACKET)

**Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of Woman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

*Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York: Random House, Inc., 1980.

Norton, Mary Beth. “The Refugee’s Revenge.” Common-place (online journal) 2:3 (April 2002) available at http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-03/norton/

Juster, Susan. “Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America” in Nancy A. Hewitt, ed. A Companion to American Women’s History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002: 66-80.

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, & Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Chapters on New England.

Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Reis, Elizabeth, ed. Spellbound : Women and Witchcraft in America. New York: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998.

Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women; Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. new ed. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. second ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

VI.  Essay Return Meetings

VII.  No Teaching This Week—Good reading!

VIII.  Strategies for Slavery and Freedom

**Online Resource: Runaway Slave Ads: http://www.wise.virginia.edu/history/runaways

Have a general look around this website but be sure to read the following:

·  ALL Runaway/Captured SLAVE Ads for Jan-May 1767

·  ALL Runaway/Captured SERVANT Ads for Jan-May 1767

·  The Two “Runaway Mixed” Ads for 1766

·  Do a search of “John Acland” and look at resulting ads

**Smith, Billy G. “Black Women Who Stole Themselves in Eighteenth-Century America” in Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger, eds. Inequality in Early America. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999. (PACKET)

**Morgan, Jennifer L. “Slavery and the Slave Trade” in Nancy A. Hewitt, ed. A Companion to American Women’s History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002: 20-34. (PACKET)

*Franklin, John Hope and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1996. Chs. 8-10.

McCurry, Stephanie. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Morgan, Philip D. “Three Planters and Their Slaves: Perspectives on Slavery in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica, 1750-1790.” In Race and Family in the Colonial South, ed. Winthrop D. Jordan and Sheila L. Skemp, 37-80. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.

IX.  Strategies for Protest

**Source Packet: Runaway Wife Ads (newspapers ads edited and provided by Professor Kirsten Sword, Georgetown University) (PACKET)

**Salmon, Thomas. A Critical Essay Concerning Marriage. (London, 1724). Section on “The Power of Husbands over their Wives.” (PACKET)

**Cott, Nancy F. “Divorce and the Changing Status of Women in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts.” William and Mary Quarterly 33: 4 (Oct. 1976): 586-614.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00435597%28197610%293%3A33%3A4%3C586%3ADATCSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B

**Block, Sharon. “Bringing Rapes to Court.” Common-place (online journal) 3:3 (April 2003). http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-03/block/

Block, Sharon. “Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Comparative Sexual Coercion in Early America”in Martha Hodes, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

*Daniels, Christine, and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Basch, Norma. Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Painter, Nell Irvin, ed. Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.

Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1996. Chs. 4-7.

X.  Sexuality in Early America

*Hall, Douglas D. In Miserable Slavery: The Diary of Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-1786. (Barbados: University of West Indies Press), Intro, Chs 3-4.

*Godbeer, Richard D. A Sexual Revolution in Early America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

*Special Issue on Sexuality: William and Mary Quarterly (Jan 2003)

http://www.historycoop.org/journals/wm/60.1/

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village.” William and Mary Quarterly 48 (1991).

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199101%293%3A48%3A1%3C19%3ATTTAAG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F

Foster, Thomas. “Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England.” William and Mary Quarterly 56 (1999).

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199910%293%3A56%3A4%3C723%3ADHMSIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0

Smith, Merril D., ed. Sex and Sexuality in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Especially articles by Sayre, Hamilton, Godbeer, Burnard, Bodle and Hessinger.

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, & Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Especially Chs. 4-5.

Hodes, Martha, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Reis, Elizabeth, ed. American Sexual Histories. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

XI. Republican Fathers and Mothers

**Crane, Elaine Forman. “Political Dialogue and the Spring of Abigail’s Discontent.” William and Mary Quarterly 56 (1999): 745-774.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199910%293%3A56%3A4%3C745%3APDATSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N

**Lewis, Jan. “A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution” in Nancy A. Hewitt, ed. A Companion to American Women’s History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002: 83-99. (PACKET)

**Zagarri, Rosemarie. “The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America.” William and Mary Quarterly 55 (1998): 203-230.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199804%293%3A55%3A2%3C203%3ATROMAW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T

*Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect & Ideology in Revolutionary America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1980.

*Lewis, Jan. “The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic.” William and Mary Quarterly 44: 4 (1987): 689-721.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28198710%293%3A44%3A4%3C689%3ATRWVAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

Zagarri, Rosemarie. “Morals, Manners, and the Republican Mother.” American Quarterly 44, no. 2 (1992): 192-215.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678%28199206%2944%3A2%3C192%3AMMATRM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters; the Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca, New York: New York University, 1996.

Gundersen, Joan R. “Independence, Citizenship, and the American Revolution.” Signs 13, no. 1 (1987): 59-77.

Gundersen, Joan R. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790. Twayne, 1995.

Bloch, Ruth H. “The Gendered Meaning of Virtue in Revolutionary America.” Signs 13, no. 1 (1987): 37-58.

Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Women in the Age of the American Revolution. Edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, Perspectives on the American Revolution. Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1989.

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