Under Household Government

Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts

• Author(s): M. Michelle Jarrett Morris,
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Pages: 316
• ISBN_10: 0674067894
  ISBN_13: 9780674067899
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) , History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... The Puritans were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many early American historians would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals that family members took on the role of watchdogs in matters of sexual indiscretion.