Dangerous to know : women, crime, and notoriety in the early republic (Book)
Title: Dangerous to know : women, crime, and notoriety in the early republic
Author: Susan Branson
Abstract: In Dangerous to Know, Susan Branson follows the fascinating lives of Ann Carson and Mary Clarke, offering an engaging study of gender and class in the early nineteenth century. According to Branson, episodes in both women's lives illustrate their struggles within a society that constrained women's activities and ambitions. She argues that both women simultaneously tried to conform to and manipulate the dominant sexual, economic, and social ideologies of the time. In their own lives and through their writing, the pair challenged conventions prescribed by these ideologies to further their own ends and redefine what was possible for women in early American public life.
Year: 2008
Primary URL: http://worldcat.org
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 0812221877

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