Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia by Wulf, Karin
Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia by Wulf, Karin

Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia

Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free...
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Author: Karin Wulf
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Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia by Wulf, Karin

Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia

CHF 43.91
Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia by Wulf, Karin

Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia

CHF 43.91
Author: Karin Wulf
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies.

In a major act of historical reconstruction, Wulf draws upon sources ranging from tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, and wills to almanacs, newspapers, correspondence, and poetry in order to recreate the daily experiences of women who were never-married, widowed, divorced, or separated. With its substantial population of unmarried women, eighteenth-century Philadelphia was much like other early modern cities, but it became a distinctive proving ground for cultural debate and social experimentation involving those women. Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period.

Author: Karin Wulf
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 06/10/2005
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780812219173

About the Author
Karin Wulf is Associate Professor of History at American University. She is the coeditor of Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America.
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