The world fill'd with a generation of bastards: Pregnant brides and unwed mothers in seventeenth -century Massachusetts
Since the 1940s historians have rewritten theories that positioned Puritans as sexually repressed and repressive. The current assumption, heralded in the foundational works of Morgan (1942), Demos (1970), Flaherty (1971), and Bremer (1976), is that married persons entered enthusiastically into their...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2000
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9988795 |