{"product_id":"entangled-lives-9781421432748","title":"Entangled Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn enlightening look at American women's work in the late eighteenth century.   What was women's work truly like in late eighteenth-century America, and what does it tell us about the gendered social relations of labor in the early republic? In Entangled Lives, Marla R. Miller examines the lives of Anglo-, African, and Native American women in one rural New England communityHadley, Massachusettsduring the town's slow transformation following the Revolutionary War. Peering into the homes, taverns, and farmyards of Hadley, Miller offers readers an intimate history of the working lives of these women and their vital role in the local economy. Miller, a longtime resident of Hadley, follows a handful of eighteenth-century women working in a variety of occupations: domestic service, cloth making, health and healing, and hospitality. She asks about the social openings and opportunities this work createdand the limitations it placed on ordinary lives. Her compelling stories about women's every\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures \u003cbr\u003eForeword, by Cathy Matson \u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Placings \u003cbr\u003ePart I: Women, Work, and Community \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: From Nolwotogg to Hadley \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Women, Work, and the Business of Gentility: The View from Forty Acres \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Women, Work, and \"Economies of Makeshifts\": The View from the Back Street \u003cbr\u003ePart II: Livelihoods  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Domestic Service \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Making Cloth \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Hospitality Work \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Healing and Caregiving \u003cbr\u003ePart III: Topographies of Change \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Working Women and the Domestic Landscapes of Forty Acres \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: New Labor, New Landscapes \u003cbr\u003eCoda: Remembering Women and Work \u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations \u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408132415831,"sku":"9781421432748","price":47.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421432748.jpg?v=1730501703","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/entangled-lives-9781421432748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}