Quakers and the American Family - British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

Zusatztext `...We have here an impressive history of the effect of poverty and wealth on migrants to America who happened to be Quakers and a study featuring one of the practices, domesticity. A wonderfully provocative history, it raises as many questions as it answers. Although it reaches beyond its grasp, the fact that it attempts to grasp makes it necessary reading for any historian of Quakerism, the family, and women in Anglo-American culture`.William and Mary Quarterly. Klappentext This brilliant study shows the pivotal role the Quakers played in the origins and development of America's family ideology. Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the New England Puritans. The Quakers stressed affection, friendship and hospitality, the importance of women in the home, and the value of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. This book explains how and why the Quakers have had such a profound cultural impact on America and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system tells us about American families. Zusammenfassung Through an analysis of the Quaker lifestyle, this study investigates the origins and fortunes of the domestic family. The author emphasizes the fact that the child-rearing practices demanded by domesticity have a heavy economic cost.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Levy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.1992
• EAN: 9780195049763
• ISBN: 978-0-19-504976-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, Sociology: family & relationships, United States of America, USA, Sociology: family and relationships, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)