- Yale University Press
Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England
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- Lisa Wilson
- Yale University Press
- Paperback
- 9780300085501
- 8.23 X 5.51 X 0.8 inches
- 0.7 pounds
- History > United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- English
Book Description
Lisa Wilson tells wonderful stories of colonial New England men, addressing the challenges of youth, the responsibilities of adulthood, and the trials of aging. She finds that ideas about patriarchy or nineteenth-century notions of separate spheres for men and women fail to explain the world that these early New England men describe. Patriarchal power, although certainly real enough, was tempered by notions of obligation, duty, and affection. These men created their identities in a multigendered, domestic world. A man was defined by his usefulness in this domestic context; as part of an interdependent family, his goal was service to family and community, not the self-reliant independence of the next century's self-made man.
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