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　　In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first

settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of

the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto

the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary

documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan,

whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may

have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case

of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church excommunicated her for

arguing that God had told husbands to listen to their wives. And

here is the enigma of Thomas, or Thomasine Hall, who lived

comfortably as both a man and a woman in 17th century Virginia.

Wonderfully erudite and vastly readable, Founding Mothers &

Fathers reveals both the philosophical assumptions and intimate

domestic arrangements of our colonial ancestors in all their rigor,

strangeness, and unruly passion.

"An important, imaginative book. Norton destroys our nostalgic

image of a 'golden age' of family life and re-creates a more

complex past whose assumptions and anxieties are still with

us."--Raleigh News and Observer

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　　Founding Mothers & Fathers is a scholarly study of the

responsibilities and rewards New World colonists assigned to adults

solely on the basis of gender. Historian Mary Beth Norton asserts

that a changing world-view caused the limited power wielded by a

handful of early colonial women to trickle away by the time the

American Constitution was framed. Since nearly every moment of

daily life was subject to intense scrutiny by the entire community,

the court records and other public documents Norton diligently

combed to make her case are anything but dull, and the offenses and

punishments meted out speak loudly to the issues of gendered

power.

　　Crystallizing the inflexibility of gender roles in the American

colonies is the tale of a servant known as Thomasine or Thomas

Hall, alternately. Raised for two decades as a girl, Hall later

switched several times between the clothes and roles of a man and

those of a woman. Although outraged townswomen repeatedly assured

colonial authorities that Hall was physically male, his feminine

mannerisms and skill with a needle and thread so unnerved one

regional commander that he demanded Hall "be putt in weomans

apparell." Other stories include that of the ne'er-do-well Pinion

family, who brawled through two generations of theft, adultery, and

domestic squabbles in New England, and a man and woman brought up

before a Virginia tribunal accused of "a great bussleling and

juggling of the bed" judged unseemly in an unmarried couple.

Founding Mothers & Fathers offers a full-bellied, incisive view

of a developing social hierarchy and the slim margin of power that

women held and lost within it. --Francesca Coltrera

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　　Her method, from page to page and line to line, is a form of

scholarly close reading in which the little details of personal

life are made to yield large interpretive conclusions.... [an]

important new book ... To follow her lead is to travel at high

speed--and ground level--through a broad, colorful and richly

variegated historical landscape. It makes, all in all, for an

unusually engrossing ride. --

The New York Times Book Review,

John Demos

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In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan, whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church excommunicated her for arguing that God had told husbands to listen to their wives. And here is the enigma of Thomas, or Thomasine Hall, who lived comfortably as both a man and a woman in 17th century Virginia. Wonderfully erudite and vastly readable, Founding Mothers & Fathers reveals both the philosophical assumptions and intimate domestic arrangements of our colonial ancestors in all their rigor, strangeness, and unruly passion.

"An important, imaginative book. Norton destroys our nostalgic image of a 'golden age' of family life and re-creates a more complex past whose assumptions and anxieties are still with us."--Raleigh News and Observer