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Women and the American Experience Concise, 2/e
Nancy Woloch, Barnard College

The Seventeenth Century: A Frontier Society

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1

Compare and contrast the roles of Native-American women, African-American women, and Anglo-American women in the seventeenth-century English colonies.
2

Compare and contrast the lives of Anglo-American women in the seventeenth century in the New England colonies and in the Chesapeake colonies.
3

How did the new world environment reshape the experiences of Anglo-American women in the seventeenth-century colonies? In what ways did the lives of colonial women differ from those of English counterparts? In what ways were they similar?
4

How did gender affect the organization of society in the seventeenth-century English colonies? Discuss family life, economic life, and public life.