Separated by Their Sex

by Mary Beth Norton

Book Overview

In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon's Rebellion by the actions of--and reactions to--Lady Frances Berkeley, wife of Virginia's governor. By...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801449499
• ISBN13: 9780801449499
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher