 | Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World Subjects: Women -- United States -- History; Women -- Great Britain -- History; Women in public life -- United States -- History; Women in public life -- Great Britain -- History; United States -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; A bold genealogy of gender in the Anglo-American public sphere from the 1640s to the 1760s. Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of many books, including Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 , also from Cornell; In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 ; and Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society . |
