Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800 / Ruth H. Bloch.

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Bloch, Ruth H, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: 1 online resource (x, 225 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520936478
0520936477
0585467781
9780585467788
9780520234055
0520234057
9780520234062
0520234065

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800DDC classification:

305.4/0973 21

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HQ1416

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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.

Summary: A collection of essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality. The volume illuminates the overarching theme by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did?

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-215) and index.

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A collection of essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality. The volume illuminates the overarching theme by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did?

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