Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. Mary Beth Norton. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. $35.00 cloth.

Mary Beth Norton's examination of gendered power in early colonial America is incisive and wellwritten. Using extensive court records from New England and the Chesapeake, Norton demonstrates how the two regions developed diverse modes of political and judicial behavior as a result of demographic and religious differences between them (12). These developments affected women in various ways, impacting the extent and conditions of their access to ...

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