The Resource Being good : women's moral values in early America, Martha Saxton
Being good : women's moral values in early America, Martha Saxton
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- Summary
- How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines--and what happens when the behavior of various groups differs from these guidelines? Martha Saxton tackles these and other fascinating issues in Being good, her history of the moral values prescribed for women in early America. Saxton begins by examining seventeenth-century Boston, then moves on to eighteenth-century Virginia and nineteenth-century St. Louis. Studying women throughout the life cycle--girls, young unmarried women, young wives and mothers, older widows--through their diaries and personal papers, she also studies the variations due to different ethnicities and backgrounds. In all three cases, she is able to show how the values of one group conflicted with or developed in opposition to those of another. And, as the women's testimonies make clear, the emotional styles associated with different value systems varied. A history of American women's moral life thus gives us a history of women's emotional life as well. Saxton argues that women's morals changed from the days of early colonization to the days of westward expansion, as women became at once less confined and less revered by their men--and explores how these changes both reflected and affected trends in the nation at large
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- x, 388 pages
- Contents
-
- I: Children and adolescents
- Massachusetts: cultural perspectives on sex, law, and feeling
- Puritan marriages: views from the inside
- Puritan marriages: views f rom the outside
- Mothers
- Aging and death
- II: Virginia girls
- Three perspectives on gender and sexuality: Anglo-American, African American, and native American
- Matrimony: inside views
- Marriages: moral and financial economies
- Fond mothers
- The logic of luxury
- Early St. Louis: an introduction
- Girls and freedom
- St. Louis marriages: cross-cultural perspectives on sex, law, and feeling
- St. Louis marriages: views from the inside
- St. Louis marriages: views from the outside
- Mothers and morals
- Race, morality, and mourning
- Isbn
- 9780374110116
- Label
- Being good : women's moral values in early America
- Title
- Being good
- Title remainder
- women's moral values in early America
- Statement of responsibility
- Martha Saxton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines--and what happens when the behavior of various groups differs from these guidelines? Martha Saxton tackles these and other fascinating issues in Being good, her history of the moral values prescribed for women in early America. Saxton begins by examining seventeenth-century Boston, then moves on to eighteenth-century Virginia and nineteenth-century St. Louis. Studying women throughout the life cycle--girls, young unmarried women, young wives and mothers, older widows--through their diaries and personal papers, she also studies the variations due to different ethnicities and backgrounds. In all three cases, she is able to show how the values of one group conflicted with or developed in opposition to those of another. And, as the women's testimonies make clear, the emotional styles associated with different value systems varied. A history of American women's moral life thus gives us a history of women's emotional life as well. Saxton argues that women's morals changed from the days of early colonization to the days of westward expansion, as women became at once less confined and less revered by their men--and explores how these changes both reflected and affected trends in the nation at large
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Saxton, Martha
- Dewey number
- 170/.82/0973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BJ1610
- LC item number
- .S39 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ethics
- Women
- United States
- Ethics
- Manners and customs
- Women
- United States
- Vrouwen
- Moraal
- Waarden
- Gedrag
- Ethik
- Frau
- USA
- Ethik
- Moralisches Handeln
- Frau
- USA
- Label
- Being good : women's moral values in early America, Martha Saxton
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-375) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I: Children and adolescents -- Massachusetts: cultural perspectives on sex, law, and feeling -- Puritan marriages: views from the inside -- Puritan marriages: views f rom the outside -- Mothers -- Aging and death -- II: Virginia girls -- Three perspectives on gender and sexuality: Anglo-American, African American, and native American -- Matrimony: inside views -- Marriages: moral and financial economies -- Fond mothers -- The logic of luxury -- Early St. Louis: an introduction -- Girls and freedom -- St. Louis marriages: cross-cultural perspectives on sex, law, and feeling -- St. Louis marriages: views from the inside -- St. Louis marriages: views from the outside -- Mothers and morals -- Race, morality, and mourning
- Control code
- ocm50645380
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- x, 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374110116
- Lccn
- 2002032836
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o50645380
- (OCoLC)50645380
- Label
- Being good : women's moral values in early America, Martha Saxton
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-375) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I: Children and adolescents -- Massachusetts: cultural perspectives on sex, law, and feeling -- Puritan marriages: views from the inside -- Puritan marriages: views f rom the outside -- Mothers -- Aging and death -- II: Virginia girls -- Three perspectives on gender and sexuality: Anglo-American, African American, and native American -- Matrimony: inside views -- Marriages: moral and financial economies -- Fond mothers -- The logic of luxury -- Early St. Louis: an introduction -- Girls and freedom -- St. Louis marriages: cross-cultural perspectives on sex, law, and feeling -- St. Louis marriages: views from the inside -- St. Louis marriages: views from the outside -- Mothers and morals -- Race, morality, and mourning
- Control code
- ocm50645380
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- x, 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374110116
- Lccn
- 2002032836
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o50645380
- (OCoLC)50645380
Subject
- Ethics
- Ethics -- United States -- History
- Ethik
- Ethik
- Frau
- Frau
- Gedrag
- Geschichte 1600-1800.
- History
- Manners and customs
- Moraal
- Moralisches Handeln
- USA
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Vrouwen
- Waarden
- Women -- Conduct of life
- Women -- Conduct of life | History
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