Monica D. Fitzgerald

Puritans Behaving Badly (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108806923
• Artikelnr.: 70908790

Autorenporträt

Monica D. Fitzgerald is a professor in the Justice, Community and Leadership Program at Saint Mary's College of California.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: disciplining the sinful: a gendered lived religion
1. The great hen squabble and regulating the godly path
2. Drunkards and fornicators on Meeting House Hill: gendered sin and discipline
3. 'Wicked tongues and wayward behavior': the language of confession
4. A 'blubbering' war hero and the middle ground of masculinity: the case of Captain John Underhill
5. 'Unquiet frame of spirit': Ann Hibbens, a troublesome and insubordinate woman
Conclusion. Three generations in the wilderness: gendered Puritanism and separate spheres
Bibliography
Index.