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Daughters of Eve: Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts

Daughters of Eve: Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts

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Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

Colonial Period (1600-1775)General ParentingWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415649021
ISBN13: 9780415649025
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 29 2012
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who bore illegitimate children were punished more severely than their male partners, and regarded with contempt by the majority of women.

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