A review by tellikat
Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society by Mary Beth Norton

4.0

I, like so many other junior scholars of women and gender, am indebted to Mary Beth Norton and her work. Obviously, this is NOT the final say on gender construction in the early colonies. However, her commitment to troubling the clear cut division between community and self is excellent. I can't wait to speak with my students about Thomas/ine Hall and put Norton's chapter in conversation with the scholarship that has been produced since.