Women in early America / edited by Thomas A. Foster ; foreword by Carol Berkin ; afterword by Jennifer L. Morgan.

New York : New York University Press, [2015]

xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Foreword: meeting the challenges of early american women's history / Carol Berkin -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: women in early Americ a: crossing boundaries, rewriting histories / Thomas A. Foster -- Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the inquisition : the travails of a seventeenth-century aristocratic woman in New Mexico / Ramón A. Gutirrez -- "Women are as knowing therein as the men" : Dutch women in early America / Kim Todt -- Women as witches, witches as women : witchcraft and patriarchy in colonial -- North america / Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis -- Servant women and sex in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Betty Wood -- Rebecca Kellogg Ashley : negotiating identity on the early American borderlands, 1704-1757 / Joy A. J. Howard -- Womanly masters : gendering slave ownership in colonial Jamaica / Christine Walker -- Women at the crossroads : trade, mobility, and power in early French America and Detroit / Karen L. Marrero -- The agrarian village world of indian women in the Ohio River Valley / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- Loyalist women in British New York City, 1776-1783 / Ruma Chopra -- "I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty" : Ona Judge Staines, the president's runaway slave / Erica Armstrong Dunbar -- "The need of their genius" : a women's revolution in early America / Mary C. Kelley -- Afterword: women in early America / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Index -- About the contributors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.