Media type: Book Title: Founding mothers & fathers : gendered power and the forming of American society Contributor: Norton, Mary Beth [Author] imprint: New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996 Issue: 1. ed. Extent: X, 496 S Language: English ISBN: 0679429654 Keywords: Sex role United States History 17th century ; Families United States History 17th century ; United States Social conditions To 1865 ; United States Politics and government To 1775 Origination: Footnote: A portion of chapter five was originally published as Gender and defamation in seventeenth-century Maryland in William & Mary quarterly, January 1987"--T.p. verso Includes bibliographical references (S. [413] - 477) and index