LEADER 04562nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910808866603321 005 20230725050748.0 010 $a0-8014-5680-0 010 $a0-8014-6089-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460890 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040571 035 $a(OCoLC)728580505 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468084 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541170 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11334154 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541170 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493478 035 $a(PQKB)10059408 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496000 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138205 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551016 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58371 035 $a(DE-B1597)478420 035 $a(OCoLC)979968136 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460890 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138205 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468084 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL772223 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040571 100 $a20101016d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeparated by their sex$b[electronic resource] $ewomen in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world /$fMary Beth Norton 210 $aIthaca [N.Y.] $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-6137-5 311 $a0-8014-4949-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLady Frances Berkeley and Virginia politics, 1675-1678 -- Mistress Alice Tilly and her supporters, 1649-1650 -- English women in the public realm, 1642-1653 -- Mistress Elinor James and her broadsides, 1681-1714 -- John Dunton and the invention of the feminine private -- Mistress Sarah Kemble Knight and her journal, 1704 -- Women and politics, eighteenth century style -- Lady Chatham and her correspondents, 1740s-1760s -- Consolidating the feminine private -- Conclusion : defining "women." 330 $aIn Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon's Rebellion by the actions of-and reactions to-Lady Frances Berkeley, wife of Virginia's governor. By contrast, when the first ordinary English women to claim a political voice directed group petitions to Parliament during the Civil War of the 1640's, men relentlessly criticized and parodied their efforts. Even so, as late as 1690 Anglo-American women's political interests and opinions were publicly acknowledged. Norton traces the profound shift in attitudes toward women's participation in public affairs to the age's cultural arbiters, including John Dunton, editor of the Athenian Mercury, a popular 1690's periodical that promoted women's links to husband, family, and household. Fittingly, Dunton was the first author known to apply the word "private" to women and their domestic lives. Subsequently, the immensely influential authors Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (in the Tatler and the Spectator) advanced the notion that women's participation in politics-even in political dialogues-was absurd. They and many imitators on both sides of the Atlantic argued that women should confine themselves to home and family, a position that American women themselves had adopted by the 1760's. Colonial women incorporated the novel ideas into their self-conceptions; during such "private" activities as sitting around a table drinking tea, they worked to define their own lives. On the cusp of the American Revolution, Norton concludes, a newly gendered public-private division was firmly in place. 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aWomen in public life$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWomen in public life$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen in public life$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen in public life$xHistory. 676 $a305.40973/09032 700 $aNorton$b Mary Beth$0184334 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808866603321 996 $aSeparated by their sex$94078533 997 $aUNINA