Women's work in New England, 1620-1920 / editor, Peter Benes ; assoc. ed., Jane Montague Benes

Contents: Section 1. Women and washing. Washing household linens and linen clothing in 1627 Plymouth / Maureen Richard -- Section 2. Women and agriculture. Increase and vantage : Women, cows, and the agricultural economy of Colonial New England / Pamela J. Snow ; Constance Strong's diary : Women's work in North Pomfret, Vermont, 1910-1920 / Cameron Clifford -- Section 3. Women as producers of textiles and clothing. "That leisure hour I seldon find" : Hannah Hayden's work and family economy in frontier New York, 1806-1822 / Amber Degn ; "The fruit of my industry" : economic roles and marital conflict in New England, 1790-1830 / Mary Beth Sievens ; One in every village : women in Maine who knit for others / Robin Hansen -- Section 4. Women in industry and communications. Number, please : New Hampshire predial telephone operators, 1877-1920 / Judith Moyer -- Section 5. Abolitionists, missionaries, and memory makers. "We have all something to do in the cause of freeing the slave" : The abolition work of Mary White / Mary B. Fuhrer ; A New England goodwife laboring in Oregon : Mary Richardson Walker, missionary pioneer / Judith M. Knowles ; Nantucket's memory keepers : Eliza Ann McCleave and the women of the Nantucket Historical Association / Aimee E. Newell -- Section 6. Gendered roles in healing and childbirth. The housewife as healer : medicine as women's work in Colonial New England / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum ; Women's travail, men's labor : birth stories from eighteenth-century New England diaries / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Section 7. Children and Servants. Eggs on the sand : Domestic servants and their children in Federal New England / Marla R. Miller ; Polish : The maintenance of manners / J. Coral Woodbury

Boston : Boston University, c2003

2003

224 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220)