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Daughters of Eve [electronic resource] : pregnant brides and unwed mothers in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Else L. Hambleton.

By: Contributor(s): Series: American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: xix, 192 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203486047
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
"The world fill'd with a generation of bastards" : the Puritans and extramarital sex -- "I threatened I would mark him" : religion, sexuality, and gender ideology -- "I know thy condition, alas, poor wench" : a quantitative analysis of illegitimate fornication prosecutions in Essex County quarterly court, 1640-1645 -- "Priscilla was fined, the child died" : a quantitative analysis of illegitimate fornication prosecutions in the Essex County quarterly court, 1665-1685 -- "I am a poor destitute creature" : sociological aspects of illegitimacy in Essex County, 1640-1685 -- Listening to women's voices : summaries of selected fornication cases, Essex County, 1640-1685 -- "She being presented for fornication" : pregnant brides in seventeenth-century Essex County -- "Cover our faces with shame" : sociological aspects of premarital pregnancy -- "Playing the rogue" : rape and issues of consent in seventeenth-century Massachusetts -- Conclusions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-185) and index.

"The world fill'd with a generation of bastards" : the Puritans and extramarital sex -- "I threatened I would mark him" : religion, sexuality, and gender ideology -- "I know thy condition, alas, poor wench" : a quantitative analysis of illegitimate fornication prosecutions in Essex County quarterly court, 1640-1645 -- "Priscilla was fined, the child died" : a quantitative analysis of illegitimate fornication prosecutions in the Essex County quarterly court, 1665-1685 -- "I am a poor destitute creature" : sociological aspects of illegitimacy in Essex County, 1640-1685 -- Listening to women's voices : summaries of selected fornication cases, Essex County, 1640-1685 -- "She being presented for fornication" : pregnant brides in seventeenth-century Essex County -- "Cover our faces with shame" : sociological aspects of premarital pregnancy -- "Playing the rogue" : rape and issues of consent in seventeenth-century Massachusetts -- Conclusions.

Also available in print edition.

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