About the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition 7
7. 2. “Women Are as Knowing Therein as the Men” 43
8. 3. Women as Witches, Witches as Women 66
9. 4. Servant Women and Sex in the Seventeenth- Century Chesapeake 95
10. 5. Rebecca Kellogg Ashley 118
11. 6. Womanly Masters 139
12. 7. Women at the Crossroads 159
13. 8. The Agrarian Village World of Indian Women in the Ohio River Valley 186
14. 9. Loyalist Women in British New York City, 1776–1783 210
15. 10. “I Knew That If I Went Back to Virginia, I Should Never Get My Liberty” 225
16. 11. “The Need of Their Genius” 246
17. About the Contributors 275
18. Index 279