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- Title
A Fraternity of Patriarchs: The Gendered Order of Early Puritan Massachusetts.
- Authors
REARDON, MATTHEW J.
- Abstract
Current consensus among historians is that the patriarchal family provided the conceptual paradigm for Puritan institutions. This article demonstrates that a previously unexplored bifurcated network of gendered power wherein fraternal and paternal models worked in conjunction to govern the colony operated in early Massachusetts. This unusual arrangement is explicated through an analysis of Massachusetts' institutional development, while its operation is illuminated by investigating the church and civil proceedings against Ann Hibbens and Anne Hutchinson. In drawing attention to the fraternal underpinnings of early Massachusetts, the following challenges prevailing interpretations of how Puritans comprehended and deployed gendered power. Matthew J. Reardon is an Assistant Professor of History at West Texas A&M University. For comments on earlier drafts, he is especially grateful to Tom Arne Midtrød, Raymond Mentzer, Linda Kerber, Ann Little, and the two anonymous reviewers for the Historical Journal of Massachusetts.
- Subjects
PURITANS; GENDER; PATRIARCHY; HIBBENS, Ann; HUTCHINSON, Anne Marbury, 1591-1643; PURITAN movements; POWER (Social sciences); COLONIAL Massachusetts, ca. 1600-1775; SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 2, p122
- ISSN
0276-8313
- Publication type
Article