LEADER 04087nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910815444603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-76269-9 010 $a9786612762697 010 $a0-520-93647-7 010 $a1-59734-628-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936478 035 $a(CKB)111087027179672 035 $a(EBL)223614 035 $a(OCoLC)437143968 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000161037 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947008 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161037 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10198815 035 $a(PQKB)10000046 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055912 035 $a(DE-B1597)520447 035 $a(OCoLC)52996716 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936478 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223614 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027179672 100 $a20020313d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800 /$fRuth H. Bloch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23405-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-215) and index. 327 $aOverviews. Theory : culturalist critique of feminist theory (1993). History : untangling the roots of modern sex roles? (1978) -- Colonial transitions. Revaluing motherhood : American feminine ideals in transition : the rise of the moral mother, 1785-1815 (1978). Regulating courtship : women and the law of courtship in eighteenth century America (2001). Utilitarian vs. evangelical perspectives : women, love, and virtue in the thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993) -- Revolutionary synthesis. Religion and sentimentalism : religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology (1994). Republican virtue : the gendered meanings of virtue in revolutionary America (1987). Public/private : gender and the public/private dichotomy in revolutionary thought. 330 $aRuth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of her work by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did? Bloch looks deeply into eighteenth-century culture to answer this question, highlighting long-term developments in religion, intellectual history, law, and literature, showing that the eighteenth century was a time of profound transformation for women's roles as wives and mothers, for ideas about sexuality, and for notions of female moral authority. She engages topics from British moral philosophy to colonial laws regarding courtship, and from the popularity of the sentimental novel to the psychology of religious revivalism. Lucid, provocative, and wide-ranging, these eight essays bring a revisionist challenge to both women's studies and cultural studies as they ask us to reconsider the origins of the system of gender relations that has dominated American culture for two hundred years. 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWomen colonists$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSex role$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEthics$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen colonists$xHistory. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 615 0$aEthics$xHistory. 676 $a305.4/0973 700 $aBloch$b Ruth H.$f1949-$0447247 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815444603321 996 $aGender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800$91098002 997 $aUNINA