UID:
almahu_9948357888002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 177 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108778817 (ebook)
Inhalt:
Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and women. The book argues that laypeople shaped gender conventions by challenging the ideas of ministers and rectifying more traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. Although Puritan's emphasis on spiritual equality had the opportunity to radically alter gender roles, in daily practice laymen censured men and women differently - punishing men for public behavior that threatened the peace of their communities, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. In order to retain their public masculine identity, men altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into the construction of religious ideas about public service, the creation of the individual, and the gendering of separate spheres. With these practices, Puritans transformed their 'errand into the wilderness' and the normative Puritan became female.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 May 2020).
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781108478786
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778817
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
