Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts

An enlightening look at American women's work in the late eighteenth century.

What was women's work truly like in late eighteenth-century America, and what does it tell us about the gendered social relations of labor in the early republic? In Entangled Lives, Marla R. Miller examines the lives of Anglo-, African, and Native American women in one rural New England community—Hadley, Massachusetts—during the town's slow transformation following the Revolutionary War. Peering into the homes, tav...