This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cotts acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historians development of the concept of domesticity from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Nancy Cotts Bonds of Womanhood is not just a pioneer work in womens history. It is a classic. Despite all the work published since, it is still an essential starting place for understanding New England in the early republic.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Cott, still the best historian of womens bonds and bondage, foresaw twenty years ago the tendency of domesticitys bonds to lead both to feminism and the far right. An essential book for understanding todays women.Carolyn Heilbrun
Reviews of the earlier edition:
A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book.Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review
Womens history at its best.Phyllis Kriegel, New Directions for Women
Nancy Cotts Bonds of Womanhood is not just a pioneer work in womens history. It is a classic. Despite all the work published since, it is still an essential starting place for understanding New England in the early republic.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Cott, still the best historian of womens bonds and bondage, foresaw twenty years ago the tendency of domesticitys bonds to lead both to feminism and the far right. An essential book for understanding todays women.Carolyn Heilbrun
Reviews of the earlier edition:
A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book.Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review
Womens history at its best.Phyllis Kriegel, New Directions for Women
