Reflections on Gender in Early America
Cornell University history professor Mary Beth Norton presented a talk titled “Reflections on Gender in Anglo-America.” The lecture was base… read more
Cornell University history professor Mary Beth Norton presented a talk titled “Reflections on Gender in Anglo-America.” The lecture was based on four books she published between 1980 and 2011: Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (1980), Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996), In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002), and Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World (2011). This was the American Antiquarian Society’s 14th annual Baron lecture. close
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