ca. 1600-1775 

(SBN) 0520234057 (cloth : alk. paper)||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index.||(CON) Contents: Overviews. Theory : culturalist critique of feminist theory (1993). History : untangling the roots of modern sex roles3 (1978) -- Colonial transitions. Revaluing motherhood : American feminine ideals in transition : the rise of the moral mother, 1785-1815 (1978). Regulating courtship : women and the law of courtship in eighteenth century America (2001). Utilitarian vs. evangelical perspectives : women, love, and virtue in the thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993) -- Revolutionary synthesis. Religion and sentimentalism : religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology (1994). Republican virtue : the gendered meanings of virtue in revolutionary America (1987). Public/private : gender and the public/private dichotomy in revolutionary thought. 

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