Listed in: History, as HIST-450
Jen Manion (Section 01)
[US/p] An exploration of life in colonial North America through laws passed to regulate, restrict, and give meaning to sexual relations by British, Spanish, French, and Dutch colonizers. Major themes will be sexual and gender norms, faith and family, economic systems, geography, and culture with an emphasis on cross-cultural conflicts, interactions, and communities. Students will work extensively with primary source documents from court cases about interracial sex, premarital sex, sexual assault, abortion, same-sex intimacies, bastardy, and people of indeterminate sex and gender. Students will write an original research paper. One class meeting per week. Limited to 15 students. Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Professor Manion.
Section 01
W 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM CHAP 210
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England | Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999 | Reis, Elizabeth | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia | Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996 | Brown, Kathleen M. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery | Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 | Morgan, Jennifer L. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Law and People in Colonial America | Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Pres | Hoffer, Peter Charles | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820 | Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009 | Klepp, Susan E. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America | Boston: Beacon Press, 2007 | Foster, Thomas A. | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.