Over the Threshold Intimate
Violence in Early America
Ed: Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy
A fascinating and disturbing collection offering a new angle of
vision on relations
between men and women in early America. I predict a wide
readership for this book.
Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to be Ladies
Like the classic study, Albion's Fatal Tree, Over the Threshold
combines
first-rate scholarship with fascinating reading. Ranging from
spousal murders in
Northern New England to domestic slave abuses in Mississippi,
these essays
persuasively show how subtly interwoven were early American
social conventions,
applications of justice, and the never-ending complications of
gender, race, class, and
rapid social change. Often as gripping as a novel, this book
richly deserves a large and
appreciative audience.. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, author of Southern
Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
A first-rate collection on the history of 'intimate violence' in
colonial America and
the United States from the second half of the seventeenth century
to the eve of the
Civil War, convincingly demonstrating both the historical context
and the nature and
patterns of change in the levels of violence over time. The
essays, both extremely
readable and uniformly of high quality, tell fascinating, often
riveting, stories of love,
lust and general mayhem.. William Shade, author of Democratizing
the Old Dominion
The articles in this anthology cover a wide range of
environments, from not so
peace-loving Quaker Philadelphia to brutal slave plantations in
Jamaica. The authors
investigate both patterns familiar to our own times, such as wife
and child abuse and
infanticide, as well as ones peculiar to those times, such as
routine violence directed at
servants and slaves. The articles are fresh, eye-opening, and
bring to light the extent of
routine violence and the extensive communal and legal means
available to end
it.. Elizabeth Pleck, author of Domestic Tyranny: The Making of
Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial
Times to Present
Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the
topic of intimate
violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The
essays examine
domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments,
between husbands
and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This
compelling
collection puts commonly held notions about intimate violence
under strict
historical scrutiny, often producing surprising
results.Historywomen's studies
Sociology
Routledge
08/1999
288 pages
6 x 9
Cloth
ISBN: 0415918049
Paper
ISBN: 0415918057
Women and Religion in
Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions
Marilyn J. Westerkamp
Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850
explores the first two
centuries of America's religious history, examining the
relationship between the
socio-political environment, gender politics and religion.
Drawing its background from women's religious roles and
experiences in England
during the Reformation, the book follows them through colonial
settlement, the rise
of evangelicalism with the "great awakening," the
American Revolution and
the second flowering of popular religion in the first half of the
nineteenth century.
Marilyn J. Westerkamp traces the female spiritual tradition
through the Puritans,
Baptists and Shakers, arguing that it was a strong empowering
force for women in
early America.
Women's Studies
Routledge
05/1999
240 pages
N-1/4 x 9-1/4
Christianity and Society in the
Modern World
Cloth
ISBN: 0415098149
$85.00 (US)
$128.00 (Canada)
Paper
ISBN: 0415194482
$22.99 (US)
$34.99 (Canada)
October 3, 2000