Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America

by Martha Saxton

Book Overview

A pathbreaking new study of women and morality

How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines -- and what happens when the behavior of various groups differs from these guidelines? Martha Saxton tackles these and other fascinating issues in Being Good, her history of the moral values prescribed for women in early America.

Saxton begins by examining seventeenth-century Boston,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809016338
• ISBN13: 9780809016334
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Be good to yourself

Be good to yourself and read this book. Women History is American history. This book helped me understand the contribitions and the travails of American women: and that is White, African American and Native American. It's a loving and profoundcontribution to the understanding of our times and our recent past.Thank you Martha Saxton