The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970

by Glenna Matthews

Book Overview

In the 1630s, Anne Hutchinson--the wife of a Boston merchant and mother of fifteen children--defied the Calvinist clergy by holding meetings and espousing a controversial religious stance. When asked to stop, she did not, and as a result of her outspokenness, Hutchinson was subjected to two trials, then excommunicated and exiled to upstate New York. For 200 years, Hutchinson was held as the model of an American Jezebel, a female transgressor who threatened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195054601
• ISBN13: 9780195054606
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"