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082 0 4 _a364.1530974409032
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100 1 _aMorris, M. Michelle Jarrett,
_d1973-
245 1 0 _aUnder Household Government :
_bSex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts /
_cM. Michelle Jarrett Morris.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) :
_billustrations.
490 1 _aHarvard historical studies ;
_vv. 180.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aDaniel Gookin's household -- Contrary to the laws of God and this jurisdiction -- Lawful remedies, diabolical erections, and an unwanted suitor -- The rape of Elizabeth Pierce -- A family of allies -- Two missing infants -- Traitors, rebels, and slaves.
520 _a"Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors' behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion. In a society where one's sister's husband's brother's wife was referred to as "sister," kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal cases, courtrooms became battlegrounds for warring clans. Families flooded the courts with testimony, sometimes resorting to slander and jury-tampering to defend their kin. Even slaves merited defense as household members--and as valuable property. Servants, on the other hand, could expect to be cast out and left to fend for themselves. As she elaborates the ways family policing undermined the administration of justice, M. Michelle Jarrett Morris shows how ordinary colonists understood sexual, marital, and familial relationships. Long-buried tales are resurrected here, such as that of Thomas Wilkinson's (unsuccessful) attempt to exchange cheese for sex with Mary Toothaker, and the discovery of a headless baby along the shore of Boston's Mill Pond. The Puritans that we meet in Morris's account are not the cardboard caricatures of myth, but are rendered with both skill and sensitivity. Their stories of love, sex, and betrayal allow us to understand anew the depth and complexity of family life in early New England."--Publisher's website.
538 _aAvailable electronically via the Internet.
546 _aIn English.
650 0 _aSex crimes
_zMassachusetts
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aFamilies
_zMassachusetts
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aHouseholds
_zMassachusetts
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aPuritans
_zMassachusetts
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aPuritans
_xSexual behavior.
650 0 _aFamily law
_zMassachusetts
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aSex
_zMassachusetts
_xHistory
_y17th century.
651 0 _aMassachusetts
_xSocial life and customs
_yTo 1775.
653 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
653 _aHISTORY
653 _aFamilies.
653 _aHouseholds.
653 _aPuritans.
653 _aSex crimes.
653 _aMassachusetts.
653 _a1600 - 1699
653 _aElectronic books.
653 _aHistory.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMorris, M. Michelle Jarrett, 1973-
_tUnder household government.
_dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013
_z9780674066335
_w(DLC) 2012009673
_w(OCoLC)781278965.
830 0 _aHarvard historical studies ;
_vv. 180.
856 4 0 _uhttp://wallaby.vu.edu.au:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jbw4d
_zFull-text via Books at JSTOR Demand Driven Acquisitions
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_cE-BOOK